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James Hutton: Exploration and oceanography

Pages 81-94 | Received 29 Oct 1982, Published online: 23 Aug 2006

  • Hutton , J. 1795 . Theory of the Earth Vol. 3 , Edinburgh and London (I and II III, London, 1899).
  • Hutton . 1795 . Theory of the Earth Vol. I , 306 – 306 . Edinburgh and London 3 vols
  • Hutton . 1795 . Theory of the Earth Vol. I , 161 – 161 . Edinburgh and London 3 vols
  • Playfair , J. 1805 . Biographical Account of the late Dr James Hutton . Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh , 5 : 39 – 99 . pt 3 (pp. 51, 92, 93).
  • Ferguson , A. 1805 . Minutes of the Life and Character of Dr. Black . Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh , 5 : 101 – 117 . pt 3 (p. 115n).
  • Perceval Bequest J.11
  • Perceval Bequest J.12
  • Perceval Bequest J.10
  • Playfair . 1805 . Biographical Account of the late Dr James Hutton . Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh , 5 : 94 – 94 . pt 3
  • Edinburgh University Library Gen. 873/11/198 and 226
  • Hutton to John Strange British Library MS Eng. 2001 f.21 f.21 Hutton to George Clerk Maxwell, Scottish Record Office GD 18/5937/2.
  • Ferguson . 1805 . Minutes of the Life and Character of Dr. Black . Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh , 5 : 115n – 115n . pt 3
  • Banks , J. Voyage to Iceland , 5 – 5 . McGill University . (unpublished MS in Blacker-Wood Library and 6.
  • Banks , J. Voyage to Iceland , 7 – 7 . McGill University . (unpublished MS in Blacker-Wood Library
  • Banks , J. Voyage to Iceland , 81 – 81 . McGill University . (unpublished MS in Blacker-Wood Library
  • Hutton . 1795 . Theory of the Earth Vol. I , 546 – 546 . Edinburgh and London 3 vols
  • von Troil , Ugo . 1780 . “ afterwards Archbishiop of Uppsala, was one of Banks's companions, and the only man to publish a record of the voyage ” . In Letters on Iceland London translated from the Swedish
  • Hutton to John Bell Scottish Record Office GD 18/5749 1755
  • Hutton to John Strange British Library MS Eng. 2001 1770 f.27 f.27
  • Robert Bennet to Hutton British Library Add. MS 36297 1788 f.5 f.5
  • Craig , G.Y. , ed. 1978 . James Hutton's Theory of the Earth: The Lost Drawings Edinburgh passim.
  • Hutton . 1795 . Theory of the Earth Vol. II , 259 – 259 . Edinburgh and London 3 vols
  • Hutton . 1795 . Theory of the Earth Vol. II , 369 – 369 . Edinburgh and London 3 vols
  • In the 1750s, Hutton ‘made many journeys in different parts of England’ Playfair Biographical Account of the late Dr James Hutton Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1805 5 39 99 pt 3 44) and by 1774 he felt he ‘new pretty well what England was made of’ excepting Cornwall. He visited Wales and most of Scotland except the north-west and the islands (Playfair, footnote 4,45; Hutton, footnote 1, III, chapter 4, 5 and 9; Craig, footnote 24).
  • Playfair . 1805 . Biographical Account of the late Dr James Hutton . Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh , 5 : 94 – 94 . pt 3
  • Edinburgh University Library MS Gen. 873/I/91 873/II/218; 873/III/129; Hutton (footnote 1), I, 99, 350, 468.
  • Hutton . 1795 . Theory of the Earth Vol. II , 167 – 167 . Edinburgh and London 3 vols
  • 1788 . Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh , 1 : 41 – 86 . and 2 (1790), 39–58, expanded in Dissertations on Different Subjects in Natural Philosophy (1792). Hutton's theory states that since precipitation occurs when two masses of air at different temperatures and humidities collide, the solubility of water vapour in air must increase with a rise in temperature at an accelerating, not a constant, rate. According to Playfair (footnote 4, 61 and 64) this theory attracted far more attention than Hutton's theory of the earth.
  • Hutton , J. unpublished MS on Agriculture in the Royal Society of Edinburgh (n.d.) 178 – 197 .
  • Hutton . 1792 . Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh , 1 : 210 – 210 .
  • Hutton . 1792 . Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh , 1 : 206 – 206 .
  • Edinburgh University Library Gen. 873/II/34
  • Hutton . 1792 . Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh , 1 : 630 – 630 .
  • Hutton . unpublished MS on Agriculture in the Royal Society of Edinburgh (n.d.) 178 – 206 .
  • Among Darwin's correspondence at Down House Sussex Although the subject had great import for Hutton's geological theories, I know of no other reference to this research. However, he continued to work on the relationship between heat and light.
  • Deacon , M. 1971 . Scientists and the Sea 185 – 185 . London and New York
  • Deacon , M. 1971 . Scientists and the Sea 202 – 202 . London and New York
  • Hutton . 1792 . Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh , 1 : 153 – 153 .
  • Hutton . 1792 . Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh , 1 Dedication and iv.
  • Playfair . 1805 . Biographical Account of the late Dr James Hutton . Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh , 5 : 67 – 67 . pt 3
  • B. G. Neibuhr's notes on the lectures of T. Hope Bodleian Library MS, 8v
  • Boyle , R. 1671 . “ Of the Temperature of the Submarine Regions as to Heat and Cold ” . In Tracts about the Cosmicall qualities of Things 17 – 17 . Oxford and 18.
  • Hutton . unpublished MS on Agriculture in the Royal Society of Edinburgh (n.d.) 201 – 206 .
  • Hutton . unpublished MS on Agriculture in the Royal Society of Edinburgh (n.d.) 206 – 206 .
  • Public Record Office ADM106/1216 and ADMI/1901, Cut 15 Professor Tom Vallance directed me to this reference.
  • Birch , T. 1756 . History of the Royal Society of London Vol. 2 , 136 – 136 . London II 143.
  • Phipps , C.J. 1774 . Voyage towards the North Pole 11 – 11 . London
  • Deacon . 1971 . Scientists and the Sea 204 – 204 . London and New York
  • Hutton . 1795 . Theory of the Earth Vol. II , 200 – 200 . Edinburgh and London 3 vols 228
  • For example Hutton Theory of the Earth Edinburgh and London 1795 I 29ff 29ff 3 vols 226ff, 425, 492.
  • Deacon . 1971 . Scientists and the Sea 183 – 183 . London and New York
  • Bryden , D.J. 1972 . Scottish Scientific Instrument Markers 1600–1900 43 – 58 . Edinburgh
  • Ewing , A. 1771 . A Synposis of Practical Mathematics Edinburgh frontispiece, v, vi.
  • Douglas , C. 1770 . An Account of the Result of Some Attempts Made to Ascertain the Temperatures of the Sea in Great Depths. Near the Coasts of Lapland and Norway . Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society , 60 : 39 – 47 . (p. 45)
  • Edinburgh University Library Gen., 873/IF/119
  • Beaglehole , J.G. , ed. 1961 . The Voyage of the Resolution and Adventure, Journals of Captain Cook Vol. II , 4 – 4 . Cambridge
  • Beaglehole . 1961 . The Voyage of the Resolution and Adventure, Journals of Captain Cook Edited by: Beaglehole , J.G. 725 – 725 . Cambridge
  • Deacon . 1971 . Scientists and the Sea 187 – 187 . London and New York
  • Forster , J.R. 1778 . Observations made during a Voyage round the World 60 – 60 . London
  • Wales , W. and Bayly , W. 1777 . The original Astronomical Observations made in the course of a Voyage towards the South Pole liii – liii . London
  • Wales and Bayly . 1777 . The original Astronomical Observations made in the course of a Voyage towards the South Pole vii – vii . London
  • Forster . 1778 . Observations made during a Voyage round the World 60 – 60 . London
  • Banks . Voyage to Iceland , 5 – 5 . McGill University . (unpublished MS in Blacker-Wood Library
  • Von Troil . 1780 . “ afterwards Archbishiop of Uppsala, was one of Banks's companions, and the only man to publish a record of the voyage ” . In Letters on Iceland London translated from the Swedish
  • Playfair . 1805 . Biographical Account of the late Dr James Hutton . Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh , 5 : 74n – 74n . pt 3
  • Playfair . 1805 . Biographical Account of the late Dr James Hutton . Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh , 5 : 91 – 91 . pt 3
  • Playfair . 1805 . Biographical Account of the late Dr James Hutton . Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh , 5 : 93 – 93 . pt 3

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