The Highlands Controversy

Acknowledgments
1. Nineteenth-Century British Geology and Its Historiography: Some Themes, Goals, and Methods
2. Early Geological Investigations in the Northwest Highlands
3. Geological Work of Murchison and Nicol in the Northwest Highlands: 1850s
4. The Fieldwork of 1859 and the Aberdeen Meeting of the British Association
5. The Murchison-Geikie Tour of 1860
6. Murchison and Geikie contra Nicol: The Establishment of the "Northwest Paradigm"
7. The Battle Rejoined and the Collapse of the Murchisonian Paradigm
8. Charles Lapworth: Digressions and Diversions to the Southern Uplands and the Alps
9. The Professionals Vindicated: The Work of the Surveyors in the Northwest Highlands
10. The Impact of the Highlands Controversy on the Progress of the Geological Survey: The Wharton Committee's Inquiry
11. Issues: Methodological, Epistemological, and Social
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