Alexander Henry Green
Field sketches and watercolours by a Survey geologist of the Victorian era.

Ben Peach
The life of the eminent Survey geologist whose classic work in the Highlands laid the foundations for much of our present understanding of the geological structure of Scotland. View a selection of Peach’s field sketches.

Edmund Teale
Photographs from the collection of an Australian geologist working in Africa in the early twentieth century.

Geological photographs
National Archive of Geological Photographs — more than 100,000 fully-described images dedicated to the theme of earth sciences.

Grizzly Bears
The 'dining club' of Edinburgh geologists.

Montserrat
An archive of documents, photographs and specimens from the Royal Society’s 1936 expedition to study the earthquakes and volcanic activity of Montserrat.

William Smith
The life and work of William Smith, whose geological map of 1815 is said to have changed the world. Includes a list of Smith’s maps held in the BGS Library.