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Remarks by David Milne Home, LL.D., Convener of the Society's Boulder Committee, on presenting the Committee's Fourth Report at a Meeting of the Society, 20th May 1878

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 September 2014

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1. In presenting a Fourth Report from the Society's Committee on Boulders, I may be allowed, first, to refer to the main object for which the Committee was appointed.

It was to collect data which might help towards a solution of the problem, by what agency boulders in Scotland had been transported from the parent rocks to the positions they now occupy.

The Transactions of the Society contain numerous papers by eminent geologists on this question.

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Proceedings 1877-78
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Copyright © Royal Society of Edinburgh 1878

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page 698 note * See a diagram of this sandbank and boulder in a little book, published by Edmonston & Douglas in 1871, called “Estuary of the Forth.”

page 699 note * “Estuary of the Forth,” p. 95.