A geologist’s Somaliland, told through its Jurassic fossils
John Weir’s 1929 Hunterian Museum monograph analyzes fossils collected by V. G. Glenday in Jubaland and the geology of Somaliland.
The story
The rocks of Jubaland and Somaliland, in the Horn of Africa, hold the remains of animals that lived in a Jurassic sea. V. G. Glenday collected fossils there, and John Weir described them in this monograph for the Hunterian Museum of Glasgow University, placing them in an account of the region’s Jurassic geology.
Two specialists, Ethel D. Currie and Mary Latham, contributed the sections on echinoids, the group that includes sea urchins, and on corals. The book is a scientific catalogue: each fossil is described and named in turn, with photographic plates of the specimens. Its value lies in what it set down at first hand, the original descriptions and identifications of the fossils of the region.
It was published in Glasgow by Jackson, Wylie and Co. in 1929, the third of the museum’s geological monographs. This copy is in grey printed boards with a brown cloth spine, worn at the edges, with the ghosts of removed labels on the front; inside are library stamps, some inked out, and the gutter is weak in places. Some plates have been photographed; the set of five has not been checked.
Details
- Date
- 1929
- Publisher
- Jackson, Wylie and Co., Glasgow
- Edition
- Monographs of the Geological Department of the Hunterian Museum, Glasgow University, III (1929)
- Binding
- paper_boards: Gray printed paper boards with brown cloth backstrip
- Condition
- Original gray printed boards with brown cloth backstrip, scraped adhesive label ghosts, wear at spine/board edges, internal library stamps and ink crossing out, some gutter weakness. Some plates photographed; five-plate complement not independently collated.
- Stamp
- UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA (institutional seal)
- Label
- Removed library labels, adhesive ghosts on front printed board
