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A NOTEWORTHY and welcome feature of the “Scientific Survey of Dundee and District”, prepared for the Dundee meeting of the British Association (Dundee: B.A. Reception Room. 2s.) is the inclusion of a new and very fine geological map of the country around Dundee. When it is remembered that the last official geological maps of most of this area date from last century (Angus, 1884, and East Fife, 1889) and that the last semi-official map was that prepared for the 1912 meeting of the British Association in Dundee, the value of the new map will be at once realized. The map, although not an official publication, was prepared in the Scottish Office of H.M. Geological Survey, and inevitably shows many changes in mapping when compared with the 1912 edition. These changes are in the main due to the revision work of the Survey officers in the Fife coal-fields and to the researches of independent workers, as Allan, Balsillie, Cumming, and Walker. Geologists generally will welcome this new map. It is a pity that it has been bound into the volume instead of inserted in a bound-in envelope. A certain lack of uniformity of treatment is obvious in the natural science sections of the survey. This is due no doubt to lack of space, though it is very unfortunate that no room was found for mention of the geologists from Lyell, Hugh Miller, and Geikie onwards, whose labours have elucidated the geological problems of this very interesting part of Britain.
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Dundee and District. Nature 144, 438 (1939). https://doi.org/10.1038/144438d0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/144438d0