Lyell Collection

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About this title - Four Centuries of Geological Travel: The Search for Knowledge on Foot, Bicycle, Sledge and Camel

Geological Society, London, Special Publications 2007 volume 287: NP. [Abstract] [PDF] FREE  

Introduction

Patrick N. Wyse Jackson

Global peregrinations: four centuries of geological travel

Geological Society, London, Special Publications 2007 volume 287: 1-6. [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Instructions for geological travellers

E. Vaccari

The organized traveller: scientific instructions for geological travels in Italy and Europe during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries

Geological Society, London, Special Publications 2007 volume 287: 7-17. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Britain

E. T. Drake

The geological observations of Robert Hooke (1635–1703) on the Isle of Wight

Geological Society, London, Special Publications 2007 volume 287: 19-30. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

C. J. Nicholas and P. N. Pearson

Robert Jameson on the Isle of Arran, 1797–1799: in search of Hutton's ‘Theory of the Earth’

Geological Society, London, Special Publications 2007 volume 287: 31-47. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Europe

M. Klemun

Writing, ‘inscription’ and fact: eighteenth century mineralogical books based on travels in the Habsburg regions, the Carpathian Mountains

Geological Society, London, Special Publications 2007 volume 287: 49-61. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

C. Schweizer

Geological travellers in view of their philosophical and economical intentions: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832) and Caspar Maria Count Sternberg (1761–1838)

Geological Society, London, Special Publications 2007 volume 287: 63-72. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

K. L. Taylor

Geological travellers in Auvergne, 1751–1800

Geological Society, London, Special Publications 2007 volume 287: 73-96. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Dennis R. Dean

J. D. Forbes and Naples

Geological Society, London, Special Publications 2007 volume 287: 97-107. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

M. Kölbl-Ebert

The geological travels of Charles Lyell, Charlotte Murchison and Roderick Impey Murchison in France and northern Italy (1828)

Geological Society, London, Special Publications 2007 volume 287: 109-117. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

A. Carneiro

Sharing common ground: Nery Delgado (1835–1908) in Spain in 1878

Geological Society, London, Special Publications 2007 volume 287: 119-134. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

P. N. Wyse Jackson

Grenville Arthur James Cole (1859–1924): the cycling geologist

Geological Society, London, Special Publications 2007 volume 287: 135-147. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Greenland

A. Whittaker

The travels and travails of Sir Charles Lewis Giesecke

Geological Society, London, Special Publications 2007 volume 287: 149-160. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Russia and the Caucasus

F. Naumann

Alexander von Humboldt in Russia: the 1829 expedition

Geological Society, London, Special Publications 2007 volume 287: 161-175. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

E. E. Milanovsky

Hermann Abich (1806–1886): ‘the Father of Caucasian Geology’ and his travels in the Caucasus and Armenian Highlands

Geological Society, London, Special Publications 2007 volume 287: 177-181. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Africa

Philippe Taquet

On camelback: René Chudeau (1864–1921), Conrad Kilian (1898–1950), Albert Félix de Lapparent (1905–1975) and Théodore Monod (1902–2000), four French geological travellers cross the Sahara

Geological Society, London, Special Publications 2007 volume 287: 183-190. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

U. B. Marvin

Théodore Andre Monod and the lost Fer de Dieu meteorite of Chinguetti, Mauritania

Geological Society, London, Special Publications 2007 volume 287: 191-205. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Atlantic islands

L. G. WILSON

The geological travels of Sir Charles Lyell in Madeira and the Canary Islands, 1853–1854

Geological Society, London, Special Publications 2007 volume 287: 207-228. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

M. S. Pinto and A. Bouheiry

The German geologist Georg Hartung (1821–1891) and the geology of the Azores and Madeira islands

Geological Society, London, Special Publications 2007 volume 287: 229-238. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

P. N. Pearson and C. J. Nicholas

‘Marks of extreme violence': Charles Darwin's geological observations at St Jago (São Tiago), Cape Verde islands

Geological Society, London, Special Publications 2007 volume 287: 239-253. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

North America

R. H. Silliman

Naturalists from Neuchâtel: America and the dispersal of Agassiz's scientific factory

Geological Society, London, Special Publications 2007 volume 287: 255-269. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Antony R. Orme

Clarence Edward Dutton (1841–1912): soldier, polymath and aesthete

Geological Society, London, Special Publications 2007 volume 287: 271-286. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

D. A. E. Spalding

Two Tyrrells cross the Barren Lands of Canada, 1893

Geological Society, London, Special Publications 2007 volume 287: 287-296. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

South America

S. F. de M. Figueirôa, C. P. Da Silva and E. M. Pataca

Investigating the colonies: native geological travellers in the Portuguese Empire in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries

Geological Society, London, Special Publications 2007 volume 287: 297-310. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

S. Herbert

Doing and knowing: Charles Darwin and other travellers

Geological Society, London, Special Publications 2007 volume 287: 311-323. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Australasia

W. Mayer

The quest for limestone in colonial New South Wales, 1788–1825

Geological Society, London, Special Publications 2007 volume 287: 325-342. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

D. Oldroyd

In the footsteps of Thomas Livingstone Mitchell (1792–1855): soldier, surveyor, explorer, geologist, and probably the first person to compile geological maps in Australia

Geological Society, London, Special Publications 2007 volume 287: 343-373. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

M. R. Johnston

Nineteenth-century observations of the Dun Mountain Ophiolite Belt, Nelson, New Zealand and trans-Tasman correlations

Geological Society, London, Special Publications 2007 volume 287: 375-387. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Japan

M. Yajima

Franz Hilgendorf (1839–1904): introducer of evolutionary theory to Japan around 1873

Geological Society, London, Special Publications 2007 volume 287: 389-393. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Geophysical travellers

G. A. Good

Geophysical travellers: the magneticians of the Carnegie Institution of Washington

Geological Society, London, Special Publications 2007 volume 287: 395-408. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

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