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Contents: Introduction Some thoughts on the complex and forgotten history of mineral exploration The British 'mineral engineer' John Williams (1732-1795), his work in Britain from 1749 to 1793 and as a mineral surveyor in the Veneto and North Italy between 1793 and 1795 Geological communication in the Bath area in the last half of the 18th century Le 'Nouvel Art de Prospection Miniere' de William Smith et le 'Projet de Houillere de Brewham': un essai malencontreux de recherche de charbon dans le sud-ouest de l'Angleterre, entre 1803 et 1810 Patronage and problems: Banks and the earth sciences John Farey (1766-1826), an unrecognised polymath, including John Farey, Bibliography Coal hunting at Bexhill 1805-1811: how the new science of stratigraphy was ignored James Ryan (c.1770-1847) and the problems of introducing Irish 'new technology' to British mines in the early 19th century Arthur Aikin's mineralogical survey of Shropshire 1796-1816 and the contemporary audience for geological publications The scientific ancestry and historiography of The Silurian System Joseph Harrison Fryer (1777-1855): geologist and mining engineer, in England 1803-1825 and South America 1826-1828 - a study in 'failure' William Edmond Logan's geological apprenticeship in Britain 1831-1842 James Buckman (1814-1884), English consulting geologist and his visit to the Guyandotte coal-fields in 1854 Index.
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