This publication is the report of a conference held in 2002 to mark the bicentennial of the birth of Hugh Miller, a native of Cromarty, Scotland. It contains some 26 individual papers gathered under the broad themes of Ethnography and Folklore, Geology and Natural History, and Church and Society.

Hugh Miller is hopefully a name that is still familiar to most geologists. He is generally portrayed as the self-educated stonemason who, despite being removed from the emerging science of geology by both education and distance, made a number of independent geological and palaeontological discoveries. But in reality it was through...

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