Transaction of the Inverness Scientific Society and Field Club - Vol. VII 1906 to 1912

1915. First edition. xii, 406pp. and 14 black and white illustrations, maps and plans. The Inverness Scientific Society and Field Club was founded on 8 December 1875, with William Jolly as its first President, at a time when 'Science' meant 'Knowledge'. It was formed for the study, investigation and exploration of the district, and there were to be 'readings of papers' from October to April and 'Excursions during the summer months.' Over the first fifty years nine volumes of Transactions were published recording the talks given and the expeditions to interesting places. Rising costs seem to have checked publication in the 1920s. In 1973 the title was officially changed to the Inverness Field Club, which had been its accepted name for some time. The present book is the seventh volume of the Transactions of the Society, and brings down the record to the close of 1912. As well as containing accounts of excursions to Nairnside, Culbin, and other places, it includes papers Movement of the Water of Loch-Ness, Islands in Highland Lochs, The Marbles of Skye, and The Standing Stones of Caithness. The book is bound in the original maroon cloth covered boards with a paper title label on the spine. The case of the book is in very good condition with shelf wear and some soiling to the boards and bumping to the spine ends. The contents are tight and clean although the title-page and last page of the book are browned and foxed and there is also foxing on the fore edge of the text block. There is no inscription.…