Notice of some fossils from the conglomerate at Habbie’s Howe, Logan Burn, near Edinburgh

I expect most of the members of the Society will be familiar with the locality in which these fossils are to be found. The great conglomerate cliff at the head of the lower valley of the Logan Burn is a striking feature in the landscape; but few visitors to Habbie’s Howe think it worth their while to go up the gorge made through this conglomerate cliff by which the Logan Burn empties itself from the higher valley into the lower. The mere sightseer is well repaid for the trouble he is at in visiting this little romantic gorge; but to the geologist it is much more interesting. Here masses of oval-shaped and rounded boulders appear, piled up into vertical cliffs from 50 to 60 feet high, the boulders so closely packed that they seem all to be resting the one upon the other without any matrix, and look as if a blow of the hammer would bring down the whole fabric, and bury you under hundreds of tons of rounded boulders. The boulders are composed mostly of Silurian rocks, by no means inviting to fossil collectors. But while searching among the upper beds of the conglomerate several years ago, I came upon a number of boulders of limestone embedded in it, containing what appeared to be corals and serpula-like carboniferous fossils. Since that time, when going over the beds with Mr Brown, we came upon several blocks of limestone grits, made up of broken fragments of encrinites and other organisms,