William Boyd Dawkins and the Victorian science of cave hunting: three men in a cavern
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Acknowledgements ............................................vi
Preface....................................................viii
Chapter One: Cave Hunting
Protagonist...................................................1
Caverns Measureless to Man....................................1
Breaking the Time Barrier.....................................2
Cave Hunters..................................................4
A Note about Taxonomy.........................................5
A Note about Measurements.....................................5
A Note about the spelling of Cres(s)well .....................5
Chapter Two: William Boyd Dawkins
Early Life....................................................6
Cave Hunting at Hyaena Den, Wookey Hole Ravine...............10
Bereavement and Change.......................................13
Working out the Hyaena Den ..................................15
The Geological Survey Years, 1862-1869.......................20
The Belvedere Set............................................22
Extracurricular Activities ..................................25
Versus Searles Valentine Wood Jr.............................34
Chapter Three: Manchester, England
The Origins of the Manchester Museum.........................38
A Plum Job ..................................................39
From Curator to Professor....................................40
Manchester’s Man of Science..................................42
The Oxford and Cambridge Club ...............................47
The Caverns of Wales.........................................51
To the Caverns of Northern England...........................55
WILLIAM BOYD DAWKINS
Cave Hunting..................................................69
Carving up the Ice Age........................................77
Glacial Wrangling Part 1: Seasonal Migrations ...............83
Glacial Wrangling Part 2: Victoria Cave......................91
Around the World in 138 Days.................................97
Chapter Four: Creswell Crags, 1875
The Hamlet of Creswell and its Gorge ........................102
The First Explorers: Mello and Heath.........................103
The First Explorations: April-June 1875......................106
Working in Harmony: July 1875................................110
The First Chords of Dissonance: April 1876...................118
Soothing Words...............................................122
Chapter Five: Under the Auspices of the Creswell Committee, 1876
The Exploration Committee ...................................124
Robin Hood Cave 1876.........................................127
A Game of Cat and Horse......................................132
Church Hole 1876.............................................135
Heath Departs................................................143
Mother Grundy’s Parlour 1878 ................................146
The British Association Goes to Creswell, August 1879 .......149
Chapter Six: The Suspicions of Mr Heath
An Abstract Description .....................................152
Now War is Declared..........................................155
And Battle Come Down ........................................159
A Letter to Nature...........................................161
Prejudice and Pride..........................................162
Another Letter to the Manchester City News ..................163
A Scene at the Manchester Geological Society.................166
Chapter Seven: Creswell Crags versus William Boyd Dawkins
An Audience with Thomas Heath................................170
A Controversy among the Cave Hunters.........................174
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CONTENTS
An Air of Corruption..........................................180
Thomas Heath (1847-1886) and John Magens Mello (1836-1914) ....185
Chapter Eight: Early Man in Britain
The Promised Satisfied.......................................188
Boston, Massachusetts .......................................193
Glacial Wrangling Part 3.....................................195
Chapter Nine: Industrial Disputes
Ella Selina...................................................201
Of Tunnels and Waterways, Coal and Canals.....................204
Principled Politics...........................................209
A Crisis at Waterhouse’s Museum..............................211
Eoliths and Other Archaeological Fancies .....................213
The End of the Hunt...........................................219
Prelude to Piltdown...........................................223
Death of an Eminent Scientist................................232
Chapter Ten: Three Men in a Cavern: A Cold Case Revisited
Sollas Puts His Foot In It...................................237
A Stir in the Derbyshire Countryside ........................241
Science in the Humanities....................................243
The Silence of Richard Tiddeman..............................245
Professor Dawkins’ Notebook..................................246
Three Men in a Cavern........................................248
Notes........................................................253
Bibliography.................................................277
Index........................................................296
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