Hugh Miller (1802 - 1856) was a self-taught Scottish geologist and writer and an evangelical Christian. Born in Cromarty, he had an ordinary parish school education, but soon showed a remarkable love of reading and power of story-telling. At 17 he was apprenticed to a stonemason, and his work in quarries, together with rambles among the rocks of his native shore, led him to the study of geology. In 1829 he published a volume of poems, … Wikipedia
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In a time when the whole fossil record was starting to make sense to science, Hugh Miller was a famous voice in paleontology. www.fossilnews.com/2001/hughmiller/fishstory.html
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