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There is compelling evidence, however, that "Observations on the Nature and Importance of Geology" is not by Grant, but by his mentor Robert Jameson (1774--1854), a leading mineralogist and geologist, Regius professor of natural history at the University of Edinburgh, and editor of the journal in which the article appeared. This brief note will present the reasons for attributing the article to Jameson. I will also place it within the context of Jameson's other work, and I will indicate some of the consequences of this reattribution for our understanding of the reception of evolutionary ideas in the early nineteenth century.
Despite Grant's well-known support for Lamarck, there is no substantive evidence for his authorship of the "Observations," and a detailed case for attribution has never been made. 5 While he was always interested in "fossil zoology," it is not obvious why he should have decided in October 1826 to write an encomium on geology, when all his work of this time was on invertebrate zoology. The anonymous article is not among the 4.
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