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.

Contents

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Editorial

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The mythical graptolites of the South Orkney Islands by Ian W D Dalziel

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The British Association for the Advancement of Science: a personal view of the meeting in Edinburgh, September 1979 by Isles Strachan

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A taste of Banffshire-Aberdeenshire rock by Alexander Mackie

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A geological revolution - introducing a new age into field geology [caption competition]

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Sampling at sea with IGS by Dan Evans

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Book Reviews:

Inverterbrate Palaeontology and Evolution - E N K Clarkson  review by A R MacGregor

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Life on Earth - David Attenborough  review by E N K Clarkson

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Society Publications

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