Abstract
THE controversy regarding the structure of the o north-western Highlands was a disturbing factor in the progress of o geology from 1819, when the problem was first raised by Macculloch, until it was closed in 1884 by. Sir. Archibald Geikie's announcement in NATURE (vol. xxxi., p. 29) that the generally accepted view, could no longer be maintained. The NATURE, article—perhaps the most sensational announcement in geological literature—was followed in 1888 by a report from six members of the Scottish Geological Survey (Messrs. Peach, Home, Gunn, Clough, Hinxrnan, and Cadell), giving a summary of the evidence which they had collected as to the structure of the north-western Highlands; and it has taken another twenty years to complete the survey of the whole, overthrust region and prepare the detailed observations for, publication. The full results are now issued in an elaborate monograph, the most important and the cheapest publication ever issued by the British Geological Survey. It includes 700 crowded pages, 52 artistic and instructive plates,; and a beautiful colour-printed geological map of the whole area on the scale of four miles to the inch. The price of the book is 10S. 6d. The Survey is to be congratulated on having secured for this memoir a style of production far superior to the usual standard, and on its issue at a price which should ensure for it a wide circulation.
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