Author: Brown, Robert.
Title: Geological Notes on the Noursoak Peninsula, Disco Island, and the Country in the Vicinity of of Disco Bay, North Greenland. [Reprinted from the Transactions of teh Geological Society of Glasgow, Vol V Part I Page 55].
Description: No printer, publisher or date, (c1880?). 60 ppmultifolding coloured map & occasional text tables. 'From the library of James CROLL (1821-1890), Scottish scientist and geologist. He was essentially self-taught with a background in hotel management and insurance. His orthodox scientific career began with an appointment to the Geological Survey of Scotland in 1867, a position he held until 1881. He corresponded with Lyell, Geikie and Darwin; Geikie in particular encouraging him in his researches. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1876 and received an honorary LL.D. from St. Andrews in the same year. The last ten years of his life were dogged by ill-health and he died in Perth in 1890.' Disbound. 20.5 cm x 13.5 cm. Contents lightly age browned.

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