In the recently published volume of the Memoirs of the Geo-logical Survey of Scotland, “The Geology of East Fife,” by Sir Archibald Geikie, it is argued that since the time when the 100 feet terrace was under the level of the sea there has been no depression of the land in the Firth of Tay, only “a continuous chronicle of gradual, if intermittent, uprise” (p. 321); also that “no trace has survived of any late deposit overlying the peat, so that we cannot be absolutely sure of the position which this sheet of vegetable matter would occupy if all the Post-tertiary deposits of the district could be grouped in chronological order ” (p. 318).

In the face of this statement by such a high authority it seems to be very desirable that the details of a section in post-Glacial beds, exposed in digging the foundations of the new Post Office in Dundee, should be recorded in the pages of the Geological Magazine.