The Edinburgh Geologist
Issue no 32

Editor: Alan Fyfe

Published June 1999

Cover illustration: the cover shows an old engraving of Fingal's Cave on Staffa, reproduced from Scottish Pictures by S C Green, London nd c. 1885. 

(see article on the Smithsonian Institution on page 20)

Contents

page

Editorial

1

The Garleton Haematite Mine by Bill Baird & Richard Gillanders

3

Peach and Horne in the Southern Uplandsby Phil Stone

8

Our Dynamic Earth by Stuart Monro

12

What's in a Name?by Ken Hitchen

15

Do the roots of the Smithsonian Institution extend to Edinburgh? by Ellis Yochelson & Gordon Craig

20

Alexander Rose and the Society's furniture and silver by David Land

30

Rocksword Puzzle No. 1 compiled by Angela Anderson

37

Poet's Corner - Sam the Shale by Donna Balin & Michelle Orthon

39

Proceedings of the Edinburgh Geological Society for the 164th Session, 1997-1998

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