Scilly Research Articles

Remarks on the Isles of Scilly as a Health-Resort

Remarks on the Isles of Scilly as a Health-Resort

Notes on the Scilly Isles, Together with Some Cornish Antiquities

Notes on the Scilly Isles, Together with Some Cornish Antiquities

Land shells of the Isles of Scilly

Land shells of the Isles of Scilly

On a visit to the Scilly Isles

On a visit to the Scilly Isles

Capture of Muscicapa parva at Scilly

<i>Capture of</i> Muscicapa parva <i>at Scilly</i>

On some Flint Arrow-heads(?) from near Baggy Point, North Devon

Beneath the surface-soil (at the depth of 18 inches from the top) above the “raised beaches” of North Devon and Cornwall, the author has observed broken flints; and even at the Scilly Isles such flints are found. At Croyde Bay, about half-way between Middle-Borough and Baggy Point, at the mouth of a small transverse valley, Mr. Whitley found them in considerable number, collecting about 200 specimens. About 25 per cent. of the splintered flints at this place have more or less of an arrow-head form, but they pass by insensible gradations from what appear to be perfect arrow-heads of human manufacture to such rough splinters as are evidently the result of natural causes. Hence the author suggested that great caution should be used in judging what flints have been naturally, and what have been artificially shaped.

On the Geology of the Scilly Isles

The majority of persons, merely acquainted with the name and position of the Scilly Isles, generally associate in their mind with the mention of this group a cluster of rugged rocks, affording shelter and sustenance to a few poor fishermen and pilots, and famous for nothing else than the frequent shipwrecks and naval disasters of which in times past they have been the scene. From their isolated position, and their comparative difficulty of access, they have been much less frequently visited, and less accurately described, than many other of the beautiful islets which surround our favoured shores; hence much misapprehension prevails both as to their extent and their capabilities, while very little indeed, of a scientific character, has been put on record with reference to their varied attractions, zoological, botanical, or geological.