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  • BJH volume 16 issue 2 Cover and Back matter

  • Journal:
    The British Journal for the History of Science / Volume 16 / Issue 2 / July 1983
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    05 January 2009, pp. b1-b2
    Print publication:
    July 1983
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  • BJH volume 16 issue 2 Cover and Front matter

  • Journal:
    The British Journal for the History of Science / Volume 16 / Issue 2 / July 1983
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    05 January 2009, pp. f1-f2
    Print publication:
    July 1983
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  • Arthur Aikin's Mineralogical Survey of Shropshire 1796–1816, and the contemporary audience for geological publications

  • H. S. Torrens
  • Journal:
    The British Journal for the History of Science / Volume 16 / Issue 2 / July 1983
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    05 January 2009, pp. 111-153
    Print publication:
    July 1983

  • It has become almost traditional for historians of geology to claim that Roderick Murchison (1792–1871) ‘opened to view for the first time’ the fossiliferous rocks below the Old Red Sandstone which Murchison described in his monumental work The Silurian System published in 1839. Murchison himself claimed in the introduction to this work ‘no-one was previously aware of the existence below the Old Red Sandstone of a regular series of deposits, containing peculiar organic remains’. Professor John Phillips expressed the traditional view well when he wrote of the larger area of which Shropshire forms a part: ‘practically before the Summer of 1831 the whole field of the ancient rocks and fossils… was unexplored but then arose two men… Adam Sedgwick and Roderick Murchison and simultaneously set to work to cultivate what had been left a desert’. Against this we must set the statement of George B. Greenough (1778–1855), first president of the Geological Society of London, as reported in 1841. He had ‘frequently expressed a conviction, as a result of his own observations…, that adequate enquiry alone was wanting to prove the existence of a succession of strata in the west of England, and in Wales—not less regular than that which had been demonstrated in the centre and east of the Island.’

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