THIS week will see the 190th anniversary of the death of one Enlightenment personality who should be much better known in Scotland and elsewhere for his usually unsung contribution to our understanding of the very stuff of planet Earth.
When he does get the credit he deserves, Sir James Hall of Dunglass is acknowledged as the father of experimental geology, the scientist who proved the geological theories of his friend James Hutton and invented an experimental machine which was a world first.
