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William Boyd Dawkins and the Victorian Science of Cave Hunting.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Pen and Sword,
2016.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Preface; Chapter One: Cave Hunting; Protagonist; Caverns Measureless to Man; Breaking the Time Barrier; Cave Hunters; A Note about Taxonomy; A Note about Measurements; A Note about the spelling of Cres(s)well; Chapter Two: William Boyd Dawkins; Early Life; Cave Hunting at Hyaena Den, Wookey Hole Ravine; Bereavement and Change; Working out the Hyaena Den; The Geological Survey Years, 1862-1869; The Belvedere Set; Extracurricular Activities; Versus Searles Valentine Wood Jr; Chapter Three: Manchester, England; The Origins of the Manchester Museum.
- A Plum JobFrom Curator to Professor; Manchester's Man of Science; The Oxford and Cambridge Club; The Caverns of Wales; To the Caverns of Northern England; Cave Hunting; Carving up the Ice Age; Glacial Wrangling Part 1: Seasonal Migrations; Glacial Wrangling Part 2: Victoria Cave; Around the World in 138 Days; Chapter Four: Creswell Crags, 1875; The Hamlet of Creswell and its Gorge; The First Explorers: Mello and Heath; The First Explorations: April-June 1875; Working in Harmony: July 1875; The First Chords of Dissonance: April 1876; Soothing Words.
- Chapter Five: Under the Auspices of the Creswell Committee, 1876The Exploration Committee; Robin Hood Cave 1876; A Game of Cat and Horse; Church Hole 1876; Heath Departs; Mother Grundy's Parlour 1878; The British Association Goes to Creswell, August 1879; Chapter Six: The Suspicions of Mr Heath; An Abstract Description; Now War is Declared; And Battle Come Down; A Letter to Nature; Prejudice and Pride; Another Letter to the Manchester City News; A Scene at the Manchester Geological Society; Chapter Seven: Creswell Crags versus William Boyd Dawkins; An Audience with Thomas Heath.
- A Controversy among the Cave HuntersAn Air of Corruption; Thomas Heath (1847-1886) and John Magens Mello (1836-1914); Chapter Eight: Early Man in Britain; The Promised Satisfied; Boston, Massachusetts; Glacial Wrangling Part 3; Chapter Nine: Industrial Disputes; Ella Selina; Of Tunnels and Waterways, Coal and Canals; Principled Politics; A Crisis at Waterhouse's Museum; Eoliths and Other Archaeological Fancies; The End of the Hunt; Prelude to Piltdown; Death of an Eminent Scientist; Chapter Ten: Three Men in a Cavern: A Cold Case Revisited; Sollas Puts His Foot In It.
- A Stir in the Derbyshire CountrysideScience in the Humanities; The Silence of Richard Tiddeman; Professor Dawkins' Notebook; Three Men in a Cavern; Notes; Bibliography; Plate section.