The Culture of English Geology, 1815-1851: A Science Revealed Through Its Collecting

Simon Knell

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Part 1 Geology in wider perspective: fossil collecting and the culture of geology gathering means, unfolding opportunities. Part 2 Provincial centres of geology: a culture of museums and collections stratifying the collecting community slaves of the collection. Part 3 Collecting in an age of individualism: fossils as commodities and gifts evangelists, collectors and localities excavating answers Saurians in the market place. Part 4 Collecting - the end of laissez-faire: the problem of free enterprise fossil collecting under government control a phoenix from the ashes. Part 5 The culture of English geology: the making of an heroic age.

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