Letter from the President, Note from the Secretary, and Editor's Introduction

Through dark and mysterious paths. Early modern science and the search for the origin of springs from the 16^th to the 18^th centuries

Early attempts by François Péron and Louis Depuch to measure the temperature at various depths in the ocean, and their thoughts about a hot versus a cold interior of the earth

With a little help from friends: Pierre-Louis-Antoine Cordier (1777–1861): 50 years of experimental work on basalt

Charles Darwin in the Cape Verde and Galápagos archipelagos: The role of serendipity in development of theories on the ups and downs of oceanic islands

Creation and extinction: The geological background to the initial American reception of Charles Darwin's Origin of Species

Utility of cartographic history to historical studies of the earth sciences

Disciplinary identities and crossing boundaries: The academization of speleology in the first half of the twentieth century

Soil science and its interface with the history of geology community

The history of science in the science classroom: The past is the key to the future in science education

On the history of the first Russian geological map

Reconstructions of a historic paleontological collection: Diversity re-created

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