Professor Collie has studied and written about Sir Roderick
Murchison in several monographs. This study deals with Murchison
and the wider and more general activity of scientific travels in
the mid 19th C. This work introduces the reader to the practices of
intellectual and cultural exchange in Continental Europe. These
exchanges, despite the political pressures that often mitigated
against the free flow of ideas, were increased as steam power and
telegraphs made there way from West to East and intrepid savants,
such as the eminent geologist Muchison. Each chapter is devoted to
a specific journey as adventure, exploration, scientific enquiry,
peer group contacts and personal, sometimes psychologically
significant experience. Taken together they show the one time
President of the Geological Society of London converting himself
into the President of the Royal Geographical Society especially due
to his travels in Eurasian Russia.
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