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The Edinburgh Geologist - Issue no 8 Editors: Helena Butler & Andrew McMillan Published Autumn 1980 Cover illustration: The Grizzly Bears - Readers may be interested to learn that Hercules was by no means the first bear to visit the Outer Hebrides*. The cover illustration is a cartoon of a Geologists' Annual Dinner circa 1880 taken from the Grizzly Bear Books which record in cartoon, verse and prose, the unofficial history of the Geological Survey in Scotland. Reproduced
by kind permission of the Director, British Geological Survey.
* refers to
item of news in summer of 1980 where a bear escaped on the Island of Lewis
while featuring in a television commercial. The bear, named Hercules, was
recovered after being on the loose for some three weeks.
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| Contents | page |
| Editorial | |
| A geological visit to Madeira by Michael Billet & Alistair Cowden | 1 |
| Some recollections from the notebooks of the Late Ian Sime by R J Gillanders | 7 |
| Essays from the North - Things to eat by the late Mr Ian Sime | 8 |
| The Polton landslide of December 1979 by Bill Baird & John Smellie | 9 |
| Sandstone quarrying in Angus - some thoughts on an old craft by Alexander Mackie | 14 |