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Description: | Rock and minerals (most metamorphic), from Scotland.
Specimens include:
a) Loch Duich / Glenelg: marbles and meta-ironstones.
b) Glen Clova: kyanite and staurolite-bearing rocks, muscovite.
c) Shetland: Baltasound aragonite; Unst serpentine, chromian clinchlore, magnetite, kyanite and staurolite.
d) Glen Urquhart: metamorphic rocks such as zoisite and kyanite gneiss.
e) Mull: garnets and sillimanite.
f) Miscellaneous specimens of Ailnack rutile, Tomintoul manganese, possible Scottish sapphire pebble.
g) Gregory & Bottley numbered mineral set (1-350) with labels and catalogue..
h) Field notebooks for Scotland and Norway, plus a book containing several pressed Edelweiss flowers. Joseph Alan Garrick (c. 1896-1997) may have been Professor of Engineering at Strathclyde Technical College. He was a noted climber and authority on alpine plant species. Garrick's Shelf on Buachaille Etive Mor is named after him, as is Garrick's Route on Beinn Tharsuinn near Arrochar. | Subjects: | Geology | Source: | Hunterian Museum | Address: | University of Glasgow,
University Avenue,
G12 8QQ | Creator: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Contributor: | Joseph Alan Garrick (c. 1896-1997) may have been Professor of Engineering at Strathclyde Technical College. He was a noted climber and authority on alpine plant species. Garrick's Shelf on Buachaille Etive Mor is named after him, as is Garrick's Route on | Identifier: | H-684 |
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