Search Constraints
Search Results
-
Journal article
The Hugh Miller Museum in 1902
Taylor, Michael A
-
Book
Scotland’s beginnings: Scotland through time.
Did you know that Scotland began under an iceberg-laden sea near the South Pole hundreds of millions of years ago? The journey north of the land we now call Scotland is an astounding tale of great mountains, subtropical rainforests, coral reefs, howling deserts, ammonite-inhabited seas, high lava plateaus and scouring...Taylor, Michael A ; Kitchener, Andrew C
-
Book
Hugh Miller: stonemason, geologist, writer
Hugh Miller was born in 1802 in Cromarty, Ross-shire. He started his working life as a stonemason’s apprentice; he later became a social commentator and crusader. His was a household name in his lifetime, not only in Scotland but across the English-speaking world. A recent revival in Scottish history and...Taylor, Michael A
-
Journal article
Charles W. Peach, palaeobotany and Scotland
The move south from Wick to the city of Edinburgh in 1865, some four years after retirement from the Customs service, provided Charles W. Peach with new opportunities for fossil-collecting and scientific networking. Here he renewed and maintained his interest in natural history and made significant palaeobotanical collections from the...Anderson, Lyall I ; Taylor, Michael A
-
Journal article
Sea dragons of Avalon
Tourists driving through the village2 of Street on their way to Glastonbury might well wonder at the representation of a skeleton on the road sign. Could this perhaps be a warning that this stretch of the A39 is a roadkill hotspot? I (Stig Walsh, once a local inhabitant) suspect that...Walsh, Stig A ; Taylor, Michael A
Street, ichthyosaur, plesiosaur, Somerset, Triassic, and Jurassic
-
Journal article
200 years of West Country sea dragons: Thomas Hawkins and his fossil legacy
Public lectures and seminar, Street, 22-24 July 2010Taylor, Michael A ; Noè, L. F. ; Hill, David B
ichthyosaur, Jurassic, Triassic, and plesiosaur
-
-
-
Journal article
Dr Arthur Cruickshank [obituary]
Taylor, Michael A ; Benton, M J
-
-
Journal article
Hugh Miller (1802-1856): lost papers
Taylor, Michael A ; Anderson, Lyall I
-
Journal article
Hugh Miller (1802-1856): the catalogue of his fossil collection
Michael Taylor) and Lyall Anderson write: we have observed that one of the specimen numbering systems applied to Miller’s fossil collection was started while the collection was still in family hands – though we are not certain whether this was before his death.Taylor, Michael A ; Anderson, Lyall I
-
Journal article
Hugh Miller (1802-1856): the loss of his papers.
Michael Taylor and Lyall Anderson have been considering the fate of Hugh Miller’s manuscripts as part of a wider study of his collections.Taylor, Michael A ; Anderson, Lyall I
-
Journal article
Hugh Miller (1802-1856): ephemera and museum visit reports sought
Michael Taylor and Lyall Anderson are writing an account of the dispersal, curation, and display of the collections of Hugh Miller.Taylor, Michael A ; Anderson, Lyall I