The county geognosy and mineralogy of Scotland /
Heddle, Matthew Forster,1828-1897.
Traill, Edwin,former owner.StEdNL.
Geikie, Archibald,1835-1924.Professor in excelsis.
Truro : Lake & Lake,
1878-1880[1891?].
Composite volume consisting of various article contributions by Heddle to the "Mineralogical magazine" in the 1870s and 1880s and additional material gathered from other sources, including material dating from the 1890s. The sheets were bound to form the book which was then presumably privately distributed. The Geognosy chapters on Sutherland (the last ones under the general title) appeared in six sections in the Mineralogical Magazine in the years 1881 (2), 1883 (1), 1883 (2) and 1884(1). In 1883 the Mineralogical Society  transferred their business from Lake & Lake of Truro to Messrs Williams and Strahan of London.   Heddle, as an ex-President, took possession of spare sheets printed by Lake and Lake.  He may have used these along with work done by the new printer, and other offprints, to make up copies of the book.
On title page: Reprinted from  the "Mineralogical magazine". The main 520-page work consists of: [part I]  Orkney & Shetland, pp. [7]-30; part II, with individual t.p. dated 1878, Fetlar, pp. 31-137; part. V, with individual t.p. dated 1880, Orkney, pp. 99-219; part VIII, with individual t.p. dated 1880, Sutherland, pp. 221-520.
Includes at end extra articles entitled : On new minerals found in Scotland ; A list of the pseudomorphic minerals found in Scotland (from the Philosophical Magazine for 1859); On the occurrence of sapphires in Scotland (from the Mineralogical magazine 1891); On a new mineral locality (1882?); Addendum : Professor in excelsis [by Sir Archibald Geikie].
NLS copy has a photograph of Heddle pasted on to verso of front free endpaper, and a newspaper clipping attached to rear free endpaper.
NLS copy also has an obituary poem "M. Foster [sic] Heddle" ('Foster' has been corrected in MS) pasted on to recto of one of the plates. This poem was written by T.P. Johnston (Rev. Thomas Peter Johnston of Carnbee), father-in-law of one of Heddle's daughters, and subsequently published in 1912 in a volume of Johnston's occasional poems.
Presentation inscription on upper flyleaf: Edwin Traill.
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