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==Further reading== {{refbegin}} * {{cite book | author = Geikie, Archibald | author-link=Archibald Geikie | title = Life of Sir Roderick I. Murchison | year = 1875 | publisher = John Murray | location = London |volume= I | url = https://archive.org/details/lifeofsirroderic01geikrich |access-date= 26 February 2019 |via= Internet Archive}} * {{cite book | author = Geikie, Archibald | author-link=Archibald Geikie | title = Life of Sir Roderick I. Murchison | year = 1875 | publisher = John Murray | location = London |volume= II | url = https://archive.org/details/lifeofsirroderic02geikrich |access-date= 26 February 2019 |via= Internet Archive}} * {{cite journal|last=Hestmark|first= Geir |date=2008|title=A primitive country of rocks and people" β Roderick I Murchison's Silurian Campaign in Norway 1844|journal= Norwegian Journal of Geology|volume= 88|pages= 117β141}} * {{cite book|last=Morton|first= John L.|title=King of Siluria β How Roderick Murchison Changed the Face of Geology|publisher=Brocken Spectre |date= 2004|isbn=0-9546829-0-4}} * {{cite book|author-link=Martin J. S. Rudwick|last=Rudwick|first= Martin J. S.|title=The Great Devonian Controversy: The Shaping of Scientific Knowledge among Gentlemanly Specialists|url=https://archive.org/details/greatdevoniancon0000rudw|url-access=registration|publisher=University of Chicago Press|date= 1985|isbn=9780226731018}} β the rise of Murchison to power * {{cite book|author-link=James A. Secord|last=Secord|first= James A.|title=Controversy in Victorian Geology: The Cambrian-Silurian Dispute|publisher=Princeton University Press|date=1986|bibcode=1986cvgc.book.....S }} β documents the battle between Murchison and [[Adam Sedgwick]] * {{citation|title=Murchison's Wanderings in Russia: His Geological Exploration of Russia in Europe and the Ural Mountains, 1840β1841 |editor1-first= M. |editor1-last=Collie|editor2-first= J. |editor2-last=Diener|location= Buckinghamshire|publisher= Halstan & Co.|date= 2004|pages= 474 |series=British Geological Survey Occasional Publication No. 2.}} * {{cite book|last=Murchison|first= Arthur|title=War Before Science: Sir Robert Impey Murchison's Youth, Army Service and Military Associates During the Napoleonic Wars|publisher=Academica Press|date= 2014|isbn=978-1-936320-74-5}} * {{cite book|last=Stafford|first= Robert A.|title=Scientist of Empire: Sir Roderick Murchison, Scientific Exploration and Victorian Imperialism|publisher=Cambridge University Press|date= 1989}} - documents Murchison's role in promoting the symbiotic relationship between the natural sciences and British imperialism * {{cite book |chapter= Sir Roderick Murchison (Obituary Notice, Monday, October 23, 1871) |title= Eminent Persons: Biographies reprinted from The Times|year=1892 |publisher=Macmillan and Co. |place=London |pages=63β75 |volume= I (1870β1875)|hdl=2027/uc2.ark:/13960/t6n011x45 }} {{refend}}
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