The Edinburgh Geologist
Issue no 33

Editor: Alan Fyfe

Published October 1999

Cover illustration: the cover shows the living cycad, Zamia floridana, from the central and southern Florida peninsula. This is one of the 'living fossils' described by Bill Baird in his article on page 3 of this issue and was originally published in  Ancient plants and the world they lived in by Henry N. Andrews, Comstock Publishing Associates, 1947.

Contents

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Editorial

1

Living Fossils by Bill Baird

3

Encounters with James Hutton by Ellis L Yochelson, Gordon Craig & Alan Fyfe

7

Out of Africa the Editor speaks with Barry Dawson

10

What's in a Name? The demise of the Tertiary by Alan Fyfe

15

What's in a Name? Postscript correspondence with Ken Hitchen

18

Where have all the fossils gone? by Liz Hide

22

Elgin weekend excursion - two viewpointsby David & Fiona McAdam

25

Letter from an Old Huttonian by Dennis R Dean & Tom Sharpe

28

Views on Our Dynamic Earth by friends of the Editor

33

Poet's Corner - The Appin Minibus Drivers' Song by Rosalind Garton

36

Book Review:

Building Stones of Edinburgh - Andrew A McMillan, Richard J Gillanders & John A Fairhurst review by Audrey Dakin

38

Rocksword Puzzle No. 2 compiled by Angela Anderson

40