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NUMEROUS descriptions have been published of the Scottish coal-fields from the time of Ball, Milne and Landale to our own day. Most of these, however, have been scattered through the volumes of scientific journals or published in official reports which, as a rule, have been badly printed, expensive, and insufficiently made known to the public. By far the most important contributions to the subject are those to be found in the maps and memoirs of the Geological Survey. These publications contain a storehouse of information; they were the first, and are still the most detailed and complete, review of the whole geological structure of the coal-fields. The maps present a graphic picture of the disposition of the coal-seams and the extent to which they have been dislocated and folded. The memoirs furnish a large amount of information which could not be embodied in the maps, and both taken together form the basis on which all subsequent descriptions must rest. The progress of development has led to the opening of some new fields and to the exhaustion of others, since the appearance of the Survey publications, but we understand that arrangements have been made for an official re-examination of the coal-fields and the preparation of new editions of the maps. The work of the Survey will thus be brought up to date, and will maintain the high position which it has always held.
The Coal-fields of Scotland.
By Robert W. Dron. Pp. vi + 368. (London: Blackie and Son, Ltd.) Price 15s. net.
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The Coal-fields of Scotland . Nature 67, 125 (1902). https://doi.org/10.1038/067125b0
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