Fragments of Earth Lore: Sketches & Addresses Geological and Geographical

FRAGMENTS OF EARTH LORE
PLATE I
The Edinberg Geographical Institute J. G. Bartholemew, F.R.G.S.
FRAGMENTS
EARTH LORE
SKETCHES & ADDRESSES
Geological and Geographical
JAMES GEIKIE, D.C.L., LL.D., F.R.S., &c.
MURCHISON-PROFESSOR OF GEOLOGY AND MINERALOGY IN THE UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH FORMERLY OF H.M. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF SCOTLAND
WITH MAPS AND ILLUSTRATIONS
JOHN BARTHOLOMEW & CO. LONDON: SIMPKIN, MARSHALL, HAMILTON, KENT & Co., Ltd. 1893
The articles in this volume deal chiefly with the history of Glacial times and the origin of surface-features. As they were not written with any view to their subsequent appearance in a collected form, each is so far independent and complete in itself. Under these circumstances some repetition was unavoidable, if the articles were not to be recast, and I did not think it advisable to make such radical alteration. With the exception of verbal changes and some excisions, therefore, the papers remain substantially in their original state. Here and there a footnote has been added to indicate where the views expressed in the text have since been modified; but I have not been careful to insert such notes throughout. Geologists, like other folk, live and learn, and the reader will probably discover that the opinions set forth in some of the later articles are occasionally in advance of those maintained in the writer’s earlier days.