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Outlines of the Geology of England and Wales (Conybeare) here
Owen, Richard here, here, here, here, here, here
Oxford University here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here
Oxford University Museum of Natural History here
Padel, Ruth here
palaeontology here, here, here
Palermo here
Paris here, here, here, here, here, here, here
Parkinson, James here, here
Paviland Cave, Swansea here
Paxton, Sir Joseph here
Peel, Sir Robert here, here, here
Pelorosaurus here
Pennant, Thomas here
Pennsylvania here, here fossil footprints here
Permian period here, here
Philadelphia here
Phillips, William here
Philosophical Transactions here, here
Philosophie Zoologique (Lamarck) here
Philpot, Elizabeth here
Pitman, Walter here
plant fossils, the Great Devonian Controversy here
plate tectonics here
Playfair, John here, here
Pleistocene era here
plesiosaurus here, here, here
Plutonism here, here
Pneumatic Institution, Bristol here
Porter, Roy here
Pozzuoli here
Prévost, Constant here
Primary rocks here
primordial ocean here
Principles of Geology (Lyell) here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here attack on evolution here
dedication here
on erratics here, here
frontispiece here
on geology here
and the glacial hypothesis here
on Glen Roy here
influence on Darwin here, here, here, here
laws here
and the pace of geological change here
philosophical message here
publication here
success here
‘The Progressive Development of Life’ here
progressive development here, here
pterosaur here
Quarterly Review here, here, here
Quincy Patriot Ledger here
radioactive decay here
railways here
Rawthmell, John here
reading public, the here
Recherches sur les ossemens fossiles (‘Researches on fossil bones’) (Cuvier) here, here
reconstructions here, here
Red Lady, the here, here
Regnoasaurus here
religion geology’s challenge to here
and science here
Reliquiae Diluvianae (Buckland) here, here
Ridley, Matt here
Robin Hood’s Bay here
rock strata, reading here
Romantic movement, the here, here, here
Rome here
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew here, here
Royal College of Surgeons, Hunterian Museum here
Royal Geographical Society here, here
Royal Institution, London here, here, here, here
Royal Medal here
Royal School of Mines here
Royal Society, the here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here
Royal Society of Edinburgh here, here
Rudwick, Martin here, here, here
Rupke, Nicolaas here
Ruskin, John here
Russia here, here
Ryan, William here
St George, Andrew here
St Jago (São Tiago) here
St Petersburg School of Mines here
Sandage, Allan here
Saussure, Horace-Bénédict de here, here
savants here
School of Practical Geology here
science and God here
public interest in here
and religion here
scientific change here
Scotland here, here, here, here, here, here Parallel Roads of Glen Roy here, here, here, here, here
Scotsman, the here
Scriptural Geology here, here
Scrope, George here
Scrope, Poulett here
sea-level change here, here, here, here
seashells here, here, here, here, here
Secondary rocks here
Secord, James here, here, here, here, here
Sedgwick, Adam here, here attack on Vestiges here
background and education here
clerical duties here
critique of On the Origin of Species here
death here
elected fellow of the Geological Society here
influence on Darwin here, here, here
letters here
and Lyell here, here
meets Victoria, 1863 here
and Murchison here, here, here, here
recantation of the deluge here
Syllabus of a Course of Lectures on Geology here
travels here
unmarried state here
visit to Osborne House here
Woodwardian Professorship here, here, here, here
Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences here
sediments here
Severn Valley here
Sharpe, Tom here
Sheldrake, Rupert here
Siccar Point here, here, here
Sicily here, here
Silliman, Benjamin here
Siluria (Murchison) here
Silurian period here, here, here, here
Smith, William ‘Strata’ here, here, here, here
Snowdonia here
Société Philosophique here
solar system, age of here
Somerset Canal Company here
Somerset House here, here
Somerville, Mary here
Somerville, William here
Spean Bridge here
species, disappearance of here, here
species change here, here
species formation here, here
species identity here
species question, the here
Spectator, the here
Spedding, Thomas here
Spencer, Herbert here, here, here
Spouting Rock, Marblehead here
Stafford, Robert here
Stanley, H. M. here
Stonesfield here
stratigraphy here
subterranean heat here, here
Sunderland Society for the Prevention of Accidents in Coalmines here
survival of the fittest here
Swiss Society of Natural History here, here
Switzerland here, here, here
Sydenham, Lord here
Syllabus of a Course of Lectures on Geology (Sedgwick) here
Talbot, Mary here
Talbot, T. M. here
Taugwalder, Peter here
Tenby here
Tennyson, Alfred, In Memoriam A.H.H here
Tertiary rocks here
Theory of the Earth (Hutton) here
Ticknor, George here
Tilgate Forest here
The Times here, here, here
Torrens. Hugh here
Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh here
Transition rocks here, here, here
Travels in North America (Lyell) here, here, here, here, here, here, here
trilobites here
Tuscany here
Tyler, John here
Tyndall, John here, here, here
Tyrannosaurus rex here
unconformity here
uniformitarianism here, here
United States of America Agassiz in here
coalfields here, here
Lyell’s first trip here
Lyell’s second trip here, here
Lyell’s third trip here
mines and mining here
slaves and s
lavery here, here, here
the South here, here
women in here, here, here
universe, the, age of here
uplift here, here, here
Ussher, James, Archbishop of Armagh here, here
Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation (Chambers) here, here
Vesuvius, Mount here, here
Victoria, Queen here, here, here, here, here, here, here
Victorian geologists, fascination of here
Virginia here, here
volcanoes here
W. H. Smith here
Walcott, Charles Doolittle here
Wales here
Wallace, Alfred Russel here, here, here
Washington DC here, here
Waterhouse, Alfred here
Watson, James here
Wegener, Alfred here
Weismann, August here
Werner, Abraham Gottlob here, here, here
Whewell, William here, here, here
Whymper, Edward here
Wilberforce, Samuel, Bishop of Oxford here
Winchester, Simon here
Wollaston, Thomas Hyde here
Wollaston, William here
Wollaston Medal here, here, here, here
women education here, here
at the Great Exhibition here
in America here, here, here
interest in science here, here, here, here
Lyell on here, here, here, here
mining deaths here
RI lecture attendance here, here
Woodward, John here
Wordsworth, William here, here, here, here
Yorkshire Gazette here
Young, the Reverend George here, here
Young Men’s Christian Association here
A NOTE ON THE AUTHOR
Born in Bridgewater, Massachusetts, Brenda Maddox graduated from Harvard University (then Radcliffe) before moving to Britain to study at the London School of Economics.
Her biographies of Elizabeth Taylor, D. H. Lawrence, Nora Joyce, W. B. Yeats and Rosalind Franklin have been widely acclaimed and she has won the Los Angeles Times Biography Award, the Silver PEN Award, the French Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger and the Whitbread Biography Prize. She was previously a senior editor at the Economist and has also regularly contributed to the BBC as a commentator, and to the New York Times as a critic. She was a longstanding columnist for The Times and the Daily Telegraph.
She was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1999 and was a member of the Editorial Board of British Journalism Review and a past chairman of the Broadcasting Press Guild; she remains a vice president of the Hay-on-Wye Festival of Literature. Maddox has two children and two stepchildren and lives in London and mid-Wales.
Images
Sir Charles Lyell, 1855.
Lady Mary Lyell, 1860s.
‘Boulders drifted by ice on shores of the St Lawrence’ from Charles Lyell’s Principles of geology; or, The modern changes of the earth and its inhabitants considered as illustrative of geology, published by John Murray in 1875.
A 1787 print showing James Hutton hammering at a rock face made up of the faces of his opponents.
Strata of red sandstone, slightly inclined, Siccar Point, Berwickshire. From A Manual of Elementary Geology by Charles Lyell, 1852.
Georges Cuvier, 1822.
Sir Humphry Davy, c. 1830s. Engraving by Edward Scriven after the 1821 painting by Sir Thomas Lawrence.
William Conybeare’s 1822 cartoon of William Buckland entering a prehistoric hyena den.
William Buckland equipped to explore a glacier, 1875.
Buckland’s wall map, the frontispiece to his Bridgewater Treatise, first published in 1836.
Sketch of an Ordinary Meeting of the Geological Society, probably by Henry De la Beche, c. 1830.
Punch cartoon from 1858, mocking the Victorian fashion for fossil-hunting.
Sir Henry De la Beche.
Duria Antiquior, by Henry De la Beche. Watercolour painted in 1830 based on fossils found in Lyme Regis by Mary Anning.
Mary Anning and her dog, Tray, painted before 1842.
The skull of Temnodontosaurus platyodon, an ichthyosaurus that lived between 201 and 194 million years ago in the Lower Jurassic. It was discovered by Mary Anning’s brother in 1811 in Lyme Regis.
Adam Sedgwick, 1867.
Gideon Mantell, c. 1850.
Original drawings by Gideon Mantell showing the iguanodon fossil teeth that he discovered. These drawings were published in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, pl 14, 1825.
Sir Roderick Impey Murchison, ‘Men of the Day No. 14’, published in Vanity Fair, 26 November 1870.
Ogigiocarella, an Ordovician trilobite.
Louis Agassiz.
Charles Darwin as a young man. Watercolour by George Richmond, painted in 1840.
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