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DURING the last twenty-seven years, the study of the volcanic rocks of the British Isles has been a constant and favourite pursuit with Dr. A. Geikie. It is now seventeen years since he read before the Geological Society of London the most important of the numerous memoirs which he had from time to.time up to that date put forth on this subject. It was the well-known paper on the Island of Eigg, and was intended to be the first of a series of papers descriptive of localities where the characteristic features of the British volcanic rocks are well displayed. But man proposes: for the promised continuation of the series geologists have waited long and anxiously, no further instalments having till now appeared. The delay however, though trying while it lasted, has been productive of good result in the end; for we have now the long-wished-for consummation, not scattered through a long string of isolated papers, but in one connected whole. Dr. Geikie has garnered his harvest,: and has summed up the results of the labours of more than a quarter of a century in a memoir which may fairly be looked upon as one of the most important of the contributions to the geological history of Britain which have seen the light since the days of William Smith.
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GREEN, A. British Tertiary Volcanoes 1 . Nature 39, 131–134 (1888). https://doi.org/10.1038/039131a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/039131a0