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The Edinburgh Geologist - Issue no 6 Editors: Helena Butler & Andrew McMillan Published Autumn 1979 Cover illustration:
The cover illustrations are taken from accounts of the Scottish National
Antarctic Expedition, 1902-1904. Photographs of the Expedition steam yacht,
the Scotia, may be found in The Scientific Results of the 'Scotia', 1902-04,
Volumes II-VII. The 'Piper and the Penguin' is taken from A Naturalist
at the Poles: the life, work and voyages of Dr W S Bruce, the Polar Explorer
by R N Rudmose Brown, 1923.
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| Contents | page |
| Editorial | 1 |
| The mythical graptolites of the South Orkney Islands by Ian W D Dalziel | 2 |
| The British Association for the Advancement of Science: a personal view of the meeting in Edinburgh, September 1979 by Isles Strachan | 9 |
| A taste of Banffshire-Aberdeenshire rock by Alexander Mackie | 12 |
| A geological revolution - introducing a new age into field geology [caption competition] | 16 |
| Sampling at sea with IGS by Dan Evans | 17 |
| Book Reviews: | |
| Inverterbrate Palaeontology and Evolution - E N K Clarkson review by A R MacGregor | 22 |
| Life on Earth - David Attenborough review by E N K Clarkson | 24 |
| Society Publications | 27 |