Proceedings of the Society, 1927-31

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Society's Rooms, 207, Bath Street, Glasgow, 14th April, 1927. The seventh meeting of the sixty-ninth session—Mr. Murray Macgregor. President , in the chair. The President read a paper “Some Geological Notes on three Districts of Northern Scotland,” by A. G. Steavenson, M.A. The communication comprised three short papers—(1) “The Stornoway Torridonian Outlier”; (2) “Some Foliated Granites in Western Lewis”; (3) “The Geology of the Stromness District, Orkney Islands.” See Vol. xviii, Part 1. Mr. McLean expressed his appreciation of the papers, and asked the President to convey to Mr. Steavenson the thanks of the meeting. Mr. Holmes and Mr. Begg drew attention to the fact that the Society's Vice-President, Mr. A. Stevens had assigned a Triassic age to the Stornoway deposits. A. STEVENS. Society's Rooms, 207, Bath Street, Glasgow, 13th October, 1927. The first meeting of the seventieth session was held here this evening—Mr. A. Stevens, Vice-President , in the chair. Mr. J. E. Richey read a paper on “The North Ayrshire Sequence of Calciferous Sandstone Volcanic Rocks.” See this Volume , Part II. Dr. G. W. Tyrrell congratulated Mr. Richey on his paper. He had stated that the trachytic types were later than the others. This was consistent with the speaker's observations in other parts of the Western district. The trachytic vents of Meikle Bin and Misty Law had broken through the basalt plateaux of the Campsies and Renfrewshire. In 1917 he had correlated the trachytic dykes of the Cumbrae with that phase. More recently, Mr. McCallien had established the same sequence This 250-word extract was created in the absence of an abstract