Volume of 12 reprints of papers given by John Smith to the Geological Society of Glasgow, Andersonian Naturalists Society, and the Liverpool Geological Society. The notes for many of the papers are in John Smith's notebooks:
- A group of Short Papers on geological features of Arran, Great Cumbrae, Neilston, Paisley and Hamilton Hill to Glasgow Geological Society, 8 Feb 1900;
- Post-drift Fossils of the Clyde Drainage Area at Low Levels;
- Localities for Old Red Sandstone and Carboniferous Fossils in the Clyde Drainage Area;
- The Buried or Drift-Filled Channel and Glens: and the post Glacial Glens of Ayrshire to the Andersonian Naturalists Society, 5 May 1897;
- Cleaves Cove, Dalry, Ayrshire to the Geological Society of Glasgow, 16 Jun 1883;
- The Barite Veins of South-West Scotland to the Geological Society of Glasgow, 14 Apr 1898;
- The "China Clay" Mine and Water-of-Ayr Hone-Stone Bed at Troon to the Geological Society of Glasgow, 10 Apr 1898;
- Palaeozoic Radiolarians and Radiolarian Chert to the Geological Society of Glasgow, 26 May 1898;
- The Permian Outlier of the Snar Valley Lanarkshire to the Geological Society of Glasgow, 9 Feb 1899;
- Spango Granite to the Geological Society of Glasgow, 9 May 1899;
- The Natural History of Ailsa Craig;
- The Drift Beds and Boulders of the Louther and Neighbouring Hills and Valleys to the Liverpool Geological Society, 1899-1900.