A Geological Miscellany / / G. Y. Craig, E. J. Jones.
A Geological Miscellany is an entertainment: a book of anecdotes, epigrams, documents, and cartoons, all illustrating (although not all intentionally) the humorous side of the profession.Originally published in 1985.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again mak...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2014] ©1985 |
| Year of Publication: | 2014 |
| Edition: | Course Book |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Princeton Legacy Library ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (214 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Preface
- Contributors
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Uniformitarian Meanders
- 4004 BC
- Brief Thoughts on Maps
- Variable Strata
- Biblical Uniformitarianism
- Geological Literature
- On the Prospects of Coal near Otakaia, Otago
- The Discovery of the South Magnetic Pole
- Geologists in Antarctica
- Oceanography at Wisconsin
- Sampling the Sea Floor in 1820
- The Last Pterodactyl
- Plain Geology
- Pardon?
- Rocks, Whistles and Last Trumps
- The First Seismograph
- The San Francisco Earthquake
- Earthquake in Valdivia
- Legal Slip
- Einstein and Gutenberg
- A Scientific Swindler
- Alfred Wegener, Meteorologist (1870-1930)
- Et Al.
- On Brevity
- Poppycock
- Rock Bottom
- Annual Mileage
- Student Field Trip
- Travelling Expenses
- Victorian Geology
- Life on the Ocean Wave
- Geology in London
- William Buckland 1784-1856)
- Divining for Metals
- Proof Spirit
- Feasting
- Fasting
- Struthiomimus, or the Danger of Being Too Clever
- Burnet and His Critics
- Expert Advice
- Compiling Maps
- Joining-up
- Theories of the Earth, 1828
- Pursuing a Line of Thought
- Petrifications
- The Excursion
- Respect for the Director General
- Bureaucracy, 1885
- Official Letters
- Irish Debt
- The Village and Its Amusements
- Poor Smith
- Odd Balls
- Time and Tide
- Old Magma
- Magmafication
- A Fossil Town
- In Aquavitae, Veritas
- On the Effects of Malt Whisky
- Traits of My Early Childhood
- Self-esteem
- Transient Love
- Haute Cuisine
- Motivating Research
- Marsh and Cope
- A Visit to Dr Woodward
- Cephalopods Cure Cramp in Cows
- Ad Infinitum
- Collecting in 1728
- The Specimen Hunter
- Self-possession
- Mary Anning
- Welsh Pronunciation: the Sedgwick Way
- Plesiosaurus triatarsostinus
- A New Approach
- Plus Ça Change
- Geology in 1969
- The Piltdown Hoax
- Sedgwick on The Origin of Species
- Aping the Past
- Letter to the Earth
- Geology-the Hypothetical Science
- A Geologist's Paradise
- The Great Diamond Hoax
- Mark Twain-Geologist
- Theorists
- Ami Boué
- Dress and Equipment 100 Years Ago
- Darwin and Sedgwick in the Field
- Darwin on Lyell
- Lyell as Statesman and Gourmand
- Cabbage Rolls
- Trace Elements in Food
- Lab. Work
- Chemists and Geologists
- In Situ
- Cuvier's Study
- The Jolly Young Trilobite
- Potted Geology
- Science and Economists
- In Memoriam
- Field Trip-New Mexico
- Moderation in All Things
- Storm Warning
- . . . But Names Can Never Hurt Me
- Call a Spade a Spade
- Linnaeus Simplified
- Musty Dons
- Rote Learning
- Practical Demonstrations
- Student Assessment
- Rara Avis
- The Giant's Causeway
- Triangular Diagrams
- 'Frisky Hall'
- Experimental Folding
- The Pick and Hammer Club
- Russian Efficiency
- Stone Juice
- Acknowledgement
- Geological Poachers
- Pretty Stones
- Magnetic Attraction
- E. B. Bailey (1881-1965)
- Ruskin on Rocks
- The Death of Pliny the Elder
- Vesuvius
- Volcanic Moulds
- Fecal Petrofabrics
- Suggestions re Field Work, etc.
- AWOL
- Powell in the Grand Canyon
- The Min. Mag.
- The Cosmic Achoo!
- Index