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2006
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Hugh Miller: fossils, landscape and literary geology
The bicentenary of the birth of Hugh Miller (1802–1856) in Cromarty (in northern Scotland) has enabled a reappraisal of this fine spare-time geologist, in turn stonemason and banker, and eventually Edinburgh newspaper editor. In Cromarty he had the usual advantages and limitations of a local collector far from metropolitan centres....Knell, Simon J. ; Taylor, Michael A
Old Red sandstone, Jurassic, Hugh Miller, Museums, Literary geology, Fossil collecting, History of vertebrate paleontology, Devonian, and History of geology