Sir John Murray: beneath the surface
From plumbing the world’s oceans on the Challenger expedition, Sir John Murray turned his attention to Scotland’s freshwater lochs
Victorian
Patrick Geddes: heart, hand and head
A scientist and a revolutionary, Patrick Geddes taught us not just about the living world, but about life itself
Things they said: Sir Patrick Geddes
“We live not by the jingling of our coins, but by the fullness of our harvests.”
William Speirs Bruce: Scotland’s Antarctic hero
Quietly determined and fiercely patriotic, in 1902 William Speirs Bruce carried the Saltire to the Antarctic on his ship, the Scotia
James Croll – Perth’s forgotten philosopher
Born in Perthshire, James Croll defied humble beginnings and persistent illness to become one of the world’s foremost thinkers on geology, cosmology, and the Earth’s ice ages
Jo Woolf 
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