Neptunism and transformism:Robert Jameson and other evolutionary theorists in early nineteenth-century Scotland

This paper sheds new light on the prevalence of evolutionary ideas in Scotland in the early nineteenth century and establish what connections existed between the espousal of evolutionary theories and adherence to the directional history of the earth proposed by Abraham Gottlob Werner and his Scottish disciples. A possible connection between Wernerian geology and theories of the transmutation of species in Edinburgh in the period when Charles Darwin was a medical student in the city was suggested in an important 1991 paper by James Secord. This study aims to deepen our knowledge of this important episode in the history of evolutionary ideas and explore the relationship between these geological and evolutionary discourses. To do this it focuses on the circle of natural historians around Robert Jameson, Wernerian geologist and professor of natural history at the University of Edinburgh from 1804 to 1854. From the evidence gathered here there emerges a clear confirmation that the Wernerian model of geohistory facilitated the acceptance of evolutionary explanations of the history of life in early nineteenth-century Scotland. As Edinburgh was at this time the most important center of medical education in the English-speaking world, this almost certainly influenced the reception and development of evolutionary ideas in the decades that followed.</p

Geognostisches Gemälde von Deutschland : mit Rücksicht auf die Gebirgs-Beschaffenheit nachbarlicher Staaten

von A. Boué ; herausgegeben von C.C. von Leonhar

Résumé des progrès de la géologie, et de quelques unes de ses principales applications, pendant l'année 1832 : (lu aux séances des 4 et 18 février 1833)

par M. Ami Boué ; Société Géologique de Franc

Ueber baumlose Gegenden der Continente

Von Ami Bou

Synoptische darstellung der die erdrinde ausmachenden formazionen, so wie der wichtigsten, ihnen untergeordneten, massen.

Mode of access: Internet

Journal d'un voyage géologique fait à travers toute la chaîne des Carpathes, en Bukowine, en Transylvanie et dans le Marmarosch / par feu M. Lill de Lilienbach. Observations remises en ordre et accompagnées de notes par M.A. Boué

Note : 80 p : 3 pl. en noir et en coul ; 31 cm. (Mémoires de la Société Géologique de France, 1ère série, tome I, mémoire n° 13)