TYPICAL ROCKS OF SCOTLAND MICROSCOPE SLIDE SET by J.M. BRYSON
01-021. English, 4th quarter 19th century, with booklet titled 'TYPICAL ROCKS OF SCOTLAND FOR THE
MICROSCOPE, Prepared by J.M. BRYSON, 60 Princess Street, Edinburgh, Selected by Professor Geike,
F.R.S." A collection of 30 mineral thin section microscope slides in a cloth covered slide case,
including limestone, chalcedonic limestone, cannel or parrot coal, bituminous shale, granite -
Aberdeen, granite - Peterhead, granite - Dalbeattie, quartz-felsite - Peterhead, quartz-felsite -
Neave Island, quartz-felsite - Tinto Hill, quartz-felsite - Drummadoon, pitchstone, spherulitic
pitchstone, porphyrite, diabase - Corstorphise Hill, diabase - Salisbury Crags, diabase -
Chaighead Quarry, basalt - Shore, basalt - Lion's Haunch, pikrite, felsite-tuff, basalt-tuff,
greywacke, grit, micaceous quartzite, mica-schist, hornblende-schist, chlorite-slate, and
serpentine. Also included is the original leaflet describing each of the sections. The slides,
descriptive leaflet, and original slide case are all in very good overall condition.
