Punch,  25 (1853), 214.

Songs of the Geological Society

Anon

Genre:

Song, Drollery

Subjects:

Geology, Palaeontology


    'Adapted by a late President', the song describes his favourite geological regions and features including 'the west, / For there Silurian beds abound', the 'trilobites in the Bala bed', and the 'Auld, Auld Red' where there is 'mony a fish [...] Wi' heteorcercal tail'.



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