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{"title":"Cleaning Minerals: practical and ethical considerations","authors":"L. Allington-Jones","doi":"10.55468/gc252","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.55468/gc252","url":null,"abstract":"Mineral specimens have a dual nature, both as a scientific resource and an aesthetic pleasure. Combine this with a long history of sampling for study, and the developed nature of most specimens on the commercial market, and it is difficult to relate to the ethical principles of conservation when cleaning minerals.","PeriodicalId":203203,"journal":{"name":"Geological Curator","volume":"58 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128797205","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The palaeontologist William Hellier Baily (1819-1888): new biographical information","authors":"R. Williams","doi":"10.55468/gc249","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.55468/gc249","url":null,"abstract":"A biographical account, previously published in The Geological Curator in 2009, of the palaeontologist William Hellier Baily (1819-1888) has already addressed his struggle for advancement in the Geological Survey of Ireland, and various aspects of his publication of Figures of Characteristic British Fossils ([1867]-1875). Further light, revealed by documents recently discovered in the Geological Society of London archives and the Linnean Society of London library, is now cast on those matters.","PeriodicalId":203203,"journal":{"name":"Geological Curator","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128890088","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Obituary: Ron Cleevely (1934-2017)","authors":"Natural History Museum, London","doi":"10.55468/gc254","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.55468/gc254","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":203203,"journal":{"name":"Geological Curator","volume":"119 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121622257","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Reflectance Transformation Imaging - a possible alternative to ammonium chloride coating for specimen photography","authors":"C. Pickup, S. Harris","doi":"10.55468/gc253","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.55468/gc253","url":null,"abstract":"Coating specimens with ammonium chloride for photography has become the de facto standard for publication in palaeontological journals. However, it has several drawbacks such as the risk of damage to the specimen, and it requires access to a laboratory and a certain level of skill to carry out proficiently. This paper presents Reflectance Transformation Imaging (RTI) as a technique that can be carried out using digital photography equipment available to most researchers, museums or labs. The results of the process are compared with conventional photography, ammonium chloride coated photographs and 3D laser scans.","PeriodicalId":203203,"journal":{"name":"Geological Curator","volume":"134 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123463351","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Goodchild's Guide to the Geological Collections in the Hugh Miller Cottage, Cromarty of 1902","authors":"Michael A. Taylor, L. I. Anderson, J. Goodchild","doi":"10.55468/gc246","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.55468/gc246","url":null,"abstract":"This reproduces, in facsimile, the Guide to the Geological Collections in the Hugh Miller Cottage, Cromarty of 1902 by J. G. Goodchild.","PeriodicalId":203203,"journal":{"name":"Geological Curator","volume":"3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134249369","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The appeal circular for the purchase of Hugh Miller's collection, 1858","authors":"Michael A. Taylor, L. I. Anderson","doi":"10.55468/gc243","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.55468/gc243","url":null,"abstract":"This reproduces, in facsimile, the only known copy of the Proposal to Purchase the Museum of the Late Hugh Miller for deposition in the Natural History Museum (later part of National Museums Scotland). It is datable on internal evidence to 1858. This particular copy belonged to Charles W. Peach and is annotated by him.","PeriodicalId":203203,"journal":{"name":"Geological Curator","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123913530","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The first known stereophotographs of Hugh Miller's Cottage and the building of the Hugh Miller Monument, Cromarty, 1859","authors":"Michael A. Taylor, A. D. Morrison-Low","doi":"10.55468/gc245","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.55468/gc245","url":null,"abstract":"Two early stereophotographs of Hugh Miller's birthplace cottage at Cromarty have separate provenances and their original photographer is unknown, but they were apparently taken at the same session and from almost the same location. One shows the Hugh Miller Monument under construction. The monument's planning, funding and building are outlined. It was completed in June/July 1859, with a statue of Miller by Alexander Handyside Ritchie. Combined with the state of foliage in the trees, this dates the photographs to about April/May 1859. The photographs provide useful evidence for the generally deteriorating condition of the cottage when combined with other images of the 1850s and 1860s. The production of stereophotographs for the commercial market complements contemporary accounts which confirm that Miller's birthplace was on the tourist trail even at this early date, well before the family renovated the cottage and opened a museum there in the mid-1880s. The monument played a significant part in encouraging this early tourism. It remains the only statue of Hugh Miller in an outdoors location.","PeriodicalId":203203,"journal":{"name":"Geological Curator","volume":"54 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129571154","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Hugh Miller and the Gravestone","authors":"S. Stevenson","doi":"10.55468/gc247","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.55468/gc247","url":null,"abstract":"The photographs of David Octavius Hill and Robert Adamson, taken in Edinburgh between 1843 and 1847, were arguably the first to explore the truthful and aesthetic properties of photography, beyond its powers as an accurate form of reproduction. The largely undocumented friendship between D. O. Hill, the landscape painter and photographer, and Hugh Miller, was based on an evident mutual admiration. This appears initially in the photographs of him taken by Hill and Adamson in 1843 and 1844, and in one of the very earliest critical articles on photography, written by Miller in 1843 from this direct experience as a sitter and from discussion with the photographers. This article is intended to offer a cross-cultural approach to images generally examined for their artistry. The original intention behind the photographs was sophisticated beyond the concern to make an attractive picture, and was meant to address the individual, his nature and his concerns. The portraits show us one of the most significant geologists of his day, and should be seen within the historic context of that time. They are museum objects, which can be read for their visual and intellectual impact.","PeriodicalId":203203,"journal":{"name":"Geological Curator","volume":"2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133991151","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The museums of a local, national and supranational hero: Hugh Miller's collections over the decades","authors":"Michael A. Taylor, L. I. Anderson","doi":"10.55468/gc242","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.55468/gc242","url":null,"abstract":"Hugh Miller (1802-1856), Scottish geologist, newspaper editor and writer, is a perhaps unique example of a geologist with a museum dedicated to him in his birthplace cottage, in Cromarty, northern Scotland. He finally housed his geological collection, principally of Scottish fossils, in a purpose-built museum at his house in Portobello, now in Edinburgh. After his death, the collection was purchased in 1859 by Government grant and public appeal, in part as a memorial to Miller, for the Natural History Museum (successively Edinburgh Museum of Science and Art, Royal Scottish Museum, and part of National Museums Scotland). The collection's documentation, curation and display over the years are outlined, using numerical patterns in the documentation as part of the evidence for its history. A substantial permanent display of the Miller Collection, partly by the retired Benjamin Peach (1842-1926), was installed from c. 1912 to 1939, and briefly postwar. A number of temporary displays, and one small permanent display, were thereafter created, especially for the 1952 and 2002 anniversaries. Miller's birthplace cottage was preserved by the family and a museum established there in 1885 by Miller's son Hugh Miller the younger (1850-1896) of the Geological Survey, with the assistance of his brother Lieutenant-Colonel William Miller (1842-1893) of the Indian Army, and the Quaker horticulturalist Sir Thomas Hanbury (c. 1832-1907), using a selection of specimens retained by the family in 1859. It may not have been fully opened to the public till 1888. It was refurbished for the 1902 centenary. A proposal to open a Hugh Miller Institute in Cromarty, combining a library and museum, to mark the centenary, was only partly successful, and the library element only was built. The cottage museum was transferred to the Cromarty Burgh Council in 1926 and the National Trust for Scotland in 1938. It was refurbished for the 1952 and just after the 2002 anniversaries, with transfer of some specimens and MSS to the Royal Scottish Museum and National Library of Scotland. The Cottage now operates as the Hugh Miller Birthplace Cottage and Museum together with Miller House, another family home, next door, with further specimens loaned by National Museums Scotland. The hitherto poorly understood fate of Miller's papers is outlined. They are important for research and as display objects. Most seem to have been lost, especially through the early death of his daughter Harriet Davidson (1839-1883) in Australia. Miller's collection illustrates some of the problems and opportunities of displaying named geological collections in museums, and the use of manuscripts and personalia with them. The exhibition strategies can be shown to respond to changing perceptions of Miller, famous in his time but much less well known latterly. There is, in retrospect, a clear long-term pattern of collaboration between museums and libraries in Edinburgh, Cromarty and elsewhere, strongly coupled to the fift","PeriodicalId":203203,"journal":{"name":"Geological Curator","volume":"44 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132041496","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Guide to the Hugh Miller Collection in the Royal Scottish Museum, Edinburgh, c. 1920","authors":"B. Peach, R. Traquair, Michael A. Taylor, L. I. Anderson","doi":"10.55468/gc244","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.55468/gc244","url":null,"abstract":"Around 1920, the retired Geological Survey worker Benjamin Neeve Peach (1842-1926) wrote a guide to the permanent exhibition, which he had just completed, of fossils from the collection of Hugh Miller (1802-1856) in the Royal Scottish Museum, Edinburgh (now part of National Museums Scotland). This guide also incorporated an older assessment of Miller's work on fossil fishes by the former Keeper of Natural Sciences, Ramsay Heatley Traquair (1840-1912). The guide was not issued, probably because of economic pressures on the museum in a period of fiscal stringency after the Great War. It is here published with an introduction and notes. It contains considerable information on the structure, content, and interpretive strategy of the exhibition, a rare survival for displays of that era. It shows how Miller and his collection were perceived by a leading Scottish geologist of the day, and how the collection extended beyond just Old Red Sandstone fishes, with notable strengths also in Jurassic plants and Quaternary molluscs. It provides new evidence on Ben Peach's activity in his seventies, and his thoughts on the geology and palaeontology of Scotland once safely retired from the Survey and its domineering director Archibald Geikie, and looking back to the activities not only of Miller but of his own father Charles W. Peach (1800-1886). Finally, the guide is of real curatorial value for future work on the collection.","PeriodicalId":203203,"journal":{"name":"Geological Curator","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125500753","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}