Extract

The following paper on the Geology of the Campsie district was published by the Geological Society of Glasgow in 1860, as the first part of its Transactions, and having been out of print for some time, the Council have resolved to reprint it as a guide to the members visiting the locality. They requested me, therefore, to revise the paper, for the purpose of embodying any new facts, or other geological discoveries, in the way of rocks or fossils, that may have turned up in the district since the period when it was first printed. In doing this, I have had to rewrite many passages in the paper; and the list of the Carboniferous limestone fossils is completely revised, so as to embrace all the new species which have been found in the strata of the various localities. It is hoped that this extended list, with the notes of localities and mode of occurrence of the various species, will be of use to members for the purpose of comparison with lists from other tracts of Carboniferous limestone strata in our Scottish coal-field.

As this paper is only intended as a sort of guide to the fossiliferous localities within the Campsie district, and to those spots where interesting geological phenomena are to be seen, I have avoided as much as possible the discussion of the theories advanced in explanation of some of these phenomena, giving only the facts of the cases as they appear to my own observation.

The second edition

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