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As Scotland struggles with questions of independence, the might be seen as making its own geopolitical gesture by republishing the most ambitious of the early geological studies of Scotland, originally released in 1836. This splendid map was the handiwork of , a geologist and troubled soul of Scots descent.

MacCulloch never saw his tour de force published. Born in 1773, he was elected one of the first members of the recently founded Geological Society of London in 1808, and served as its president from 1816 to 1818. MacCulloch started his geological survey of Scotland in 1811.…