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THIS collection of papers, previously published in various journals, records once more the activity of the geological school in the University of Glasgow. Prof. Gregory's address on Henry Darwin Rogers, professor of natural history in the University from 1857 to 1866, brings before the present generation of geologists views on mountain-building and on the relative rapidity of certain tectonic changes which are, indeed, worthy of consideration. Prof. Gregory's valuable review of the economic mineralogy of the war-zones has been already noticed in NATURE (vol. xcix., p. no). With Miss Jean B. Trench, the same author describes Eocene corals from New Guinea, which further support the view that the Malay region was isolated in the early Cain-ozoic epochs. Montipora, which is here traced back to the Eocene, is thus indicated as originating in the western Pacific, as reaching the Indian Ocean, where it still lives, after the Miocene period, and as arriving on the shores of the Red Sea in Pleistocene times. It is unknown from either Sind or Europe, and the only known fossil species are those of the Pliocene of Borneo and the raised beaches of the Gulf of Suez. Among several papers elucidating local geology, which naturally form the strong point of a collection such as this, we may note Mr. W. R. Smellie's “Igneous Rocks of Bute “(see NATURE, vol. xcvii., p. 350) and Mr. Tyrrell's careful additions to our knowledge of the petrography of Arran.
Papers from the Geological Department, Glasgow University.
Vol. iii. 1916. (Glasgow: James Maclehose and Sons, 1917.)
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C., G. Papers from the Geological Department, Glasgow University . Nature 100, 103 (1917). https://doi.org/10.1038/100103b0
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