The red sandstone stack of the Old Man of Hoy is a joy to behold from a hike along the cliffs. It’s one of the UK’s highest rock stacks and soars 137m above the sea, but be quick – he’s approaching ...

DR. T. S. WESTOLL, who is succeeding Prof. Hickling in the chair of geology in King‘s College, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, has had a distinguished career in geology and vertebrate palæontology.