XX. Scenes and Sections in Thornton Quarries, East Kilbride, in 1868

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The exhibition of a portion of the cranium of a reptile, by Mr. John Young, from Braehead Quarry, at the Society's meeting in November, 1890, and the report of it which I had from the Hon. Secretary, Mr. Murdoch, which stated that Mr. James Thomson also exhibited a duplicate of the same fossil from the same place, awakened recollections of many visits which I made to Braehead and Thornton Quarries in 1868, during which I gathered innumerable fossils of certain kinds, and examined and measured in detail the sections exposed in the most typical of these quarries. Some account of this work may interest the members, and may assist any one who should think of further exploration in search of reptilian remains or other fossils from the same group of strata in that locality. The origin of my visits in 1868 was this. As Mr. Thomson had expressed a doubt whether the coral named Fungites by David Ure was really found in East Kilbride, I offered to guide him to some quarries in that parish where I thought Fungites might yet be found. My offer was accepted, and one suitable day we went to verify it in South Shiels Quarry, which lay in the southern part of East Kilbride. Our way from Glasgow to South Shiels was by Carmunnock, Hairmyres, Newlands, and Crosshouse, partly by road and partly across country. After leaving Carmunnock the road passes through Braehead Quarries, and when we came to them, Mr. Thomson proposed a look This 250-word extract was created in the absence of an abstract