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2023

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The geological and historical milieu of an ornamental cephalopod limestone (‘orthoceratite limestone’, Ordovician, Sweden) used in the Clerk Mausoleum (1684), St Mungo's Kirkyard, Penicuik, Scotland

A slab of cephalopod limestone bears a dedicatory Latin inscription on the mausoleum built around 1684 by Sir John Clerk of Penicuik (1649–1722) for his wife Elizabeth Henderson (1658–83) at St Mungo's Church, Penicuik, near Edinburgh, Scotland. The stone is identified on sedimentological and palaeontological evidence and historical context as...

Taylor, Michael A ; McMillan, Andrew A ; Stewart, Sarah E ; Anderson, Lyall I

orthoceratite limestone, sedimentological and palaeontological evidence, Sweden, Elizabeth Henderson, Penicuik mausoleum, and cephalopod limestone

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A note on Alfred Tennyson and Hugh Miller

Taylor, Michael A ; Anderson, Lyall I

2007

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Kiaeropterus (Eurypterida; Stylonurina) recognized from the Silurian of the Pentland Hills

Eurypterus cyclophthalmus Laurie, 1892 from the Llandovery of the Pentland Hills, Scotland, is redescribed and assigned to the stylonurid eurypterid genus Kiaeropterus Waterston. 1979, previously only known from Kiaeropterus ruedemanni (Størmer, 1934) from the Wenlock of Norway. Another species previously assigned to Kiaeropterus, K. otisius Clarke 1907, is reassigned to...

Tetlie, O Erik ; Anderson, Lyall I ; Poschmann, Markus

2017

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J.G. Goodchild's Guide to the Geological Collections in the Hugh Miller cottage, Cromarty of 1902

This reproduces, in facsimile, the Guide to the Geological Collections in the Hugh Miller cottage, Cromarty of 1902 by J.G. Goodchild.

Taylor, Michael A ; Anderson, Lyall I ; Goodchild, J G

2017

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Guide to the Hugh Miller collection in the Royal Scottish Museum, Edinburgh, c. 1920

Around 1920, the retired Geological Survey worker Benjamin Neeve Peach (1842-1926) wrote a guide to the permanent exhibition, which he had just completed, of fossils from the collection of Hugh Miller (1802-1856) in the Royal Scottish Museum, Edinburgh (now part of National Museums Scotland). This guide also incorporated an older...

Peach, Benjamin N ; Traquair, Ramsay H ; Taylor, Michael A ; Anderson, Lyall I

2017

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The museums of a local, national and supranational hero: Hugh Miller's collections over the decades

Hugh Miller (1802-1856), Scottish geologist, newspaper editor and writer, is a perhaps unique example of a geologist with a museum dedicated to him in his birthplace cottage, in Cromarty, northern Scotland. He finally housed his geological collection, principally of Scottish fossils, in a purpose-built museum at his house in Portobello,...

Taylor, Michael A ; Anderson, Lyall I

2017

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The appeal circular for the purchase of Hugh Miller's collection, 1858

This reproduces, in facsimile, the only known copy of the Proposal to Purchase the Museum of the Late Hugh Miller for deposition in the Natural History Museum (later part of the National Museums Scotland). It is datable on internal evidence to 1858. This particular copy belonged to Charles W. Peach...

Taylor, Michael A ; Anderson, Lyall I

2009

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First non-calcified dasycladalean alga from the Carboniferous.

A non-calcified dasycladalean alga is described from the Mississippian of Scotland. This occurrence constitutes the first Carboniferous record of non-calcified dasyclads. The fossils are preserved as carbonaceous remains within siderite nodules. Preservation of their delicate structure suggests that the algae were preserved in situ or experienced minimal transport from life...

Anderson, Lyall I

Alga , Mississippian, Kingsbarns , Scotland, Uncatoella, Ageleodus, and Dasycladales

2016

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The two birthdays (and baptisms) of Charles W. Peach (1800-1886)

Taylor, Michael A ; Anderson, Lyall I

2007

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An Upper Llandovery Konservat-Lagerstatte in a depositional context: the Pentland Hills Eurypterid Bed, Midlothian

Re-excavation and detailed logging of the sedimentary sequence which includes the Eurypterid Bed on the Gutterford Burn, Pentland Hills, Midlothian, has clarified the depositional setting of this Silurian Konservat–Lagerstätte. The relative positions of the Gutterford Burn limestones, beds yielding dendroid graptolites and the Eurypterid Bed itself have been identified. Clay...

Anderson, Lyall I ; Clarkson, E N K ; Stewart, Sarah E ; Mitchell, D

2012

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The Millers’ missing papers. The Adelaide connection - an appeal for information

Taylor, Michael A ; Anderson, Lyall I

2012

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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

2012

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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