Hugh Torrens

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Hugh Torrens is affiliated with the following schools: University of Leicester, University of Oxford, Keele University

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According to Wikipedia, Hugh Simon Torrens is a British historian of geology and paleontology, and Emeritus Professor of History of Science and Technology at Keele University. Torrens received a bachelor's degree from the University of Oxford and a PhD from the University of Leicester.

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Mary Anning (1799–1847) of Lyme; ‘the greatest fossilist the world ever knew’ (1995) (86)
Timeless order: William Smith (1769–1839) and the search for raw materials 1800–1820 (2001) (24)
The practice of British geology, 1750-1850 (2002) (17)
Notes on ‘The Amateur’ in the development of British geology* (2006) (16)
Fossils by the Sea (1995) (15)
The stratigraphical distribution of Bathonian ammonites in Central England (1969) (14)
Some personal thoughts on stratigraphic precision in the twentieth century (2002) (13)
From d’Orbigny to the Devonian: some thoughts on the history of the stratotype concept (2002) (11)
Dissenting science: the Quakers among the Founding Fathers (2009) (11)
History of ichnology: Footsteps before the flood: The first scientific reports of vertebrate footprints (1996) (10)
The scientific ancestry and historiography of The Silurian System (1990) (10)
Field meeting in the Sherborne-Yeovil District (1969) (9)
Arthur Aikin's Mineralogical Survey of Shropshire 1796–1816, and the contemporary audience for geological publications (1983) (8)
Proofs and Reputations: Sir James Hall and the Use of Classification Devices in Scientific Argument (1984) (8)
Middle Nineteenth-Century Crinoid Studies Of Thomas Austin, Sr. And Thomas Austin, Jr.: Newly Discovered Unpublished Materials (1999) (7)
New evidence on the origin and Jurassic age of palaeokarst and limestone breccias, Loch Slapin, Isle of Skye (1999) (7)
A Study of `Failure' with a `Successful Innovation': Joseph Day and the Two-Stroke Internal-Combustion Engine (1992) (7)
An anonymous account of Mary Anning (1799-1847), fossil collector of Lyme Regis, England, published in Chamber's Journal in 1857, and its attribution to Frank Buckland (1826-1880), George Roberts (c.1804-1860) and William Buckland (1784-1856) (2014) (7)
The correspondence between James Hutton (1726–1797) and James Watt (1736–1819) with two letters from Hutton to george Clerk-Maxwell (1715–1784): Part II (1994) (7)
Joseph Lucas (1846–1926) — Victorian polymath and a key figure in the development of British hydrogeology (2004) (7)
The Reynolds-Anstice Shropshire geological collection, 1776–1981 (1982) (6)
The water-related work of William Smith (1769–1839) (2004) (6)
George Fleming Richardson (1796-1848) - man of letters, lecturer and geological curator (1986) (5)
John Gilbert (1812–1845) the Australian naturalist and explorer. New light on his work in England (1987) (5)
‘No Impact’: René Gallant (1906-1985) and His Book of 1964 Bombarded Earth (An Essay on the Geological and Biological Effects of Huge Meteorite Impacts) (1998) (5)
William Hunter (1718-1783) As Natural Historian: His ‘Geological’ Interests (1984) (5)
The Moravian minister Rev. Henry Steinhauer (1782–1818); his work on fossil plants, their first ‘scientific’ description and the planned Mineral Botany (2005) (5)
The Transmission of Ideas in the Use of Fossils in Stratigraphic Analysis from England to America 1800-1840 (1990) (4)
The geological work of Gregory Watt, his travels with William Maclure in Italy (1801–1802), and Watt's “proto-geological” map of Italy (1804) (2006) (4)
New light on the history of Megalosaurus, the great lizard of Stonesfield (2017) (4)
William Smith (1769–1839): His struggles as a consultant, in both geology and engineering, to simultaneously earn a living and finance his scientific projects, to 1820. (2016) (3)
An account of Mary Anning (1799-1847), fossil collector of Lyme Regis, Dorset, England, published by Henry Rowland Brown (1837-1921) in the second edition (1859) of Beauties of Lyme Regis (2014) (3)
Ichthyosaurus trigonus Owen 1840 Currently Macropterygius trigonus Reptilia Ichthyopterygia Proposed Replacement Of Neotype By Rediscovered Holotype (1991) (3)
The Isle of Wight and its crucial role in the ‘invention’ of dinosaurs (2014) (3)
The evolution of a family firm: Stothert and Pitt of Bath (1978) (3)
Louis Hunton (1814-1838) - English Pioneer in Ammonite Biostratigraphy (1984) (2)
William Smith and the United States (1984) (2)
'Mineral engineer' John Williams of Kerry (1732-95) : his work in Britain and his mineral surveys in the Veneto and North Italy / (1996) (2)
The life and works of James Alexander Knipe (?1803-1882), British itinerant geological map maker (2013) (2)
An anonymous account of Mary Anning (1799-1847), fossil collector of Lyme Regis, Dorset, England, published in All the year round in 1865, and its attribution to Henry Stuart Fagan (1827-1890), schoolmaster, parson and author (2014) (2)
The Enlightenment of Thomas Beddoes: Science, medicine, and reform (2016) (2)
English and European Bathonian stratigraphy. (1966) (2)
The Reynolds-Anstice Shropshire geological collection — 200 years of history and its lessons (1981) (2)
Louis Hunton (1814-1838) - English Pioneer in Ammonite Biostratigraphy (1984) (2)
Some Newly Discovered Letters from Jonathan Hornblower (1753–1815) (1982) (2)
William Edmond Logan's Geological Apprenticeship in Britain 1831-1842 (1999) (2)
A history of the fossil fruits and seeds of the London Clay (1840): a historical and bibliographical account of James Scott Bowerbank's unfinished monograph (2016) (2)
From Noah on (1989) (1)
Locating and identifying collections of palaeontological material (1974) (1)
The history of coal prospecting in Britain — a neglected subject (1986) (1)
Elias Hall, pioneer mineral surveyor and geologist in the Midlands and Lancashire (2011) (1)
George Perry (1771–1823): architect and naturalist (2022) (1)
Palaeontological type specimens (1974) (1)
A Farey story: the pioneer geologist John Farey (1766–1826) (2001) (1)
Models, toys, and Beddoes' struggle for educational reform, 1790-1800 (2017) (1)
William Perceval Hunter (1812–1878), forgotten English student of dinosaurs-to-be and of Wealden rocks (2010) (1)
Ron Pickford - curator extraordinary (1986) (1)
Joan Mary Eyles, née Biggs: 1907–1986 (1987) (1)
No. 3 Highbury Grove, Islington: the private geological museum of James Scott Bowerbank (1797–1877) (2016) (1)
Engineering Enterprise in Bath and Bristol (1989) (1)
The Iron Bridge at Trentham (1981) (1)
The life and times of Hastings Elwin or Elwyn (1777 - 1852) and his critical role in founding the Bath Literary and Scientific Institution in 1823 (2005) (1)
Collections & Collectors: 3. Yorkshire Museums (1974) (0)
An early-19th century geological map of the Peak District by John Farey (2012) (0)
WYSE JACKSON, P. N. (editor). Science and engineering in Ireland in 1798: a time of revolution. Royal Irish Academy, Dublin: 2000. Pp viii, 81; illustrated. Price IR£5: ISBN 1-874045-77-1 (paperback). (2002) (0)
History & mystery. Sequels and solutions 4. S4.1 History & mystery: were nonconformist divines the source for the maxim? (2014) (0)
Salvage In Museums (1986) (0)
Victor Eyles 10 October 1895–8 March 1978 (1980) (0)
MUSEOLOGICAL MUSINGS ON THE WILLIAM SMITH (1769-1839) COLLECTION OF FOSSILS, THE FIRST STRATIGRAPHICALLY CURATED IN ENGLAND (2016) (0)
Further Comments on the Maps of the Somersetshire Coal Canal (1975) (0)
George Perry (c.1718–1771): industrialist, cartographer and naturalist (2022) (0)
Good in parts (1998) (0)
Scarborough’s first geologist? The life and works of the Rev. Frederick Kendall (1790–1836) (2004) (0)
The local geologist 8: The local geological historian (1992) (0)
Book reviews: A neglected ‘Mecca’ for historians of science (1995) (0)
Collections & Collectors: 11. Bolton Museum (1976) (0)
Frst-class third man? (1994) (0)
The Archives of the Geological Society of London (1984) (0)
Development and cultural influence of geological sciences in an age of technological and industrial expansion (SU16) (1997) (0)
JAMES MEENAN and DESMOND CLARKE (Editors). Royal Dublin Society, 1731–1981. Gill and Macmillan, Dublin, 1981. Pp. [xii], 288. illust. Price IR£18 (+ 15% VAT in Irish Republic). (1982) (0)
Vivian Erwood Robson (1890-1942) Curator Turned Astrologer (1989) (0)
Gordon Leslie Herries Davies (1932–2019) (2020) (0)
Collections & Collectors: 1. Lichfield Museums (1974) (0)
JOHN PLAYER'S ‘GEOLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS’ OF 1764–1766, AND HIS CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE SOCIETY OF ARTS JOURNAL MUSEUMRUSTICUM ET COMMERCIALE (2018) (0)
Collections & Collectors: 41. The Bargrave Museum, Canterbury (1983) (0)
Dr. John Woodward, F.R.S. F.R.C.P. (1685-1728) (1974) (0)
Uncurated Curators, No. 3. Ronald Frederick Pickford (1920-2010): Bath curator, a Tribute (2010) (0)
Hugh Miller and the Coalheugh Well at Cromarty (2011) (0)
Lost & Found: 278. A lost ichthyosaur from the Lower Lias figured in William Buckland's Bridgewater Treatise of 1836, and possibly owned by the Geological Society of London or Viscount Cole F.G.S., later Earl of Enniskillen (1807-1886) (2016) (0)
Reviews (2000) (0)
Another Quaker "Lunatick": The Worcester Origins of Jonathan Stokes Junior, (1754-1831), Physician, Botanist, Geologist and youngest member of hte Lunar Society (from 1783) (2018) (0)
Jurassic Geology after the Second World War: From the Luxembourg Symposia (1962, 1967) to the William Smith Bicentenary Symposium (London, 1969) (2021) (0)
Cover, Editorial, Secretary's Report, Treasurer's Report (1984) (0)
Collections & Collectors: 2. Northampton Central Museum (1974) (0)
James Buckman (1814–1884): the scientific career of an English Darwinian thwarted by religious prejudice (2009) (0)
Early Maps of the Somersetshire Coal Canal (1974) (0)
HOW DID WILLIAM SMITH CARRY OUT HIS PIONEERING GEOLOGICAL MAPPING (2017) (0)
In Commemoration of the 150th anniversary of the death of William Smith (1989) (0)
Book Reviews, Interesting Publications, Announcements, Calendar of Events (1984) (0)
Further information on the life of Charles Moore (1815-1881), Somerset geologist. (2004) (0)
Georges Cuvier, Fossil Bones, and Geological Catastrophes by M. J. S. Rudwick. University of Chicago Press, Chicago and London, 1997. No. of pages: xvi+301. Price: £27.95 (US$34.95) (hardback). ISBN 0‐22673106‐5. (1999) (0)
A DOUBLE ANNIVERSARY: THE PLANNED 2019 PUBLICATION OF WILLIAM SMITH’S FOSSILS REUNITED (2018) (0)
Lost & Found: 280. Henry Riley M.D. (1797-1848) of Bristol (2017) (0)
Collections & Collectors: 55. Geological Collectors and Museums in Cheltenham 1810-1988: a case history and its lessons (1990) (0)
Obituary: Ronald James Cleevely (1934–2017) (2018) (0)
MARY ANNING JUNIOR (1799-1847): AN EXTRAORDINARY ENGLISH GEOLOGICAL PIONEER (2016) (0)
Scientists and swindlers: consulting on coal and oil in America, 1820-1890 - By Paul Lucier (2010) (0)
Collections & Collectors: 1. Lichfield Museums (pre 1850) postscript (1974) (0)
Eminent engineers (1990) (0)
Collections & Collectors: 52. Geological collecting and a geological career: Daniel Jones (1836-1918) with notes on other midlands collections from the Jones archive (1987) (0)
Michael Denis Crane (1946–2013) (2014) (0)

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