David Page

FEW names have been more familiar to general readers in geology than that of this practised writer. Born in Fife, his early years were spent in literary work of an unambitious kind. Among other occupations he edited for a time a newspaper in his native county. There used to be a story told of his having temporarily edited also the opposition paper during its editor's absence, and having carried on a most lively warfare in the rival pages. Whether well-founded or not, the story shows the estimation in which he was held as a facile writer. He afterwards entered into the employment of Messrs. W. and R. Chambers, and for some years took an active part in the preparation of their comprehensive series of educational publications. It was while in this capacity that he wrote his first introductory text-book of geology—a little volume which had a large sale and proved singularly useful in diffusing an elementary knowledge of the science. It was also during Page's connection with the Messrs. Chambers that the celebrated “Vestiges of the Natural History of the Creation” appeared anonymously. Looking back upon this now half-forgotten and superseded volume, it is hardly credible that it should have excited such keen feeling and passionate controversy. Having been the production of more pens than one, it was never formally owned by any one of its several authors. Robert Chambers was always credited with the lion's share of it, but there can be little doubt that he had powerful assistance from Page.

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  1890

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  1890-03-01

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  DOI 10.1038/019444a0PMCID 5284571
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