The Tertiary Volcanoes of the Western Isles of Scotland

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In the year 1874 I communicated to this Society the results of my studies concerning the Tertiary and Older Volcanic rocks of Western Scotland, and their relations to the Secondary strata with which they are so intimately associated*. The very generous manner in which the memoir dealing with those subjects was received by this Society—and especially by those who were at that time the leaders of geological thought in this country—can never be forgotten by me. Such a reception lays upon the author of a memoir certain very obvious responsibilities. In the event of serious and fatal errors being indicated in his observations or reasoning, it is clearly his duty to come forward and frankly withdraw the statements to which this Society has given such wide currency. It is equally incumbent upon him, should his premises and conclusions be openly challenged on what seem to him to be insufficient grounds, to undertake the task of re-examining and, if necessary, of defending his views. It may not perhaps be out of place to remark that my work in Scotland, to which were devoted five years of heavy labour and careful research, was one that taxed to the full the powers of a private individual. It involved the examination of the physical relations and the discussion of the palæontological characteristics of the whole of the rocks of the Highlands between the Old Red Sandstone and the Glacial deposits. Of these formations, it may be remembered that the strata of Carboniferious and Cretaceous

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