Preface
Chapter 1 Early life; family background and influences
Chapter 2 Becoming a geologist; burning the candle at both ends
Chapter 3 Assistant at the British Museum (Natural History) from 1887; early years
Chapter 4 The abortive 1892–3 Villiers ‘Great Lake Rudolf Expedition’ to East Africa
Chapter 5 Gregory’s 1893 Lake Baringo & Mount Kenya Expedition: ‘The Great Rift Valley’
Chapter 6 Home after the African expedition
Chapter 7 Marriage, publishing & journalism
Chapter 8 The 1896 Conway Spitzbergen (Svalbard) Expedition and related polar work
Chapter 9 1896–9: Frustrations, further travel and publications
Chapter 10 The move to Melbourne University
Chapter 11 The National Antarctic Expedition of 1901: a fiasco avoided
Chapter 12 The ultimate accolade: election to FRS
Chapter 13 The Australian years: Professor of Geology and Mineralogy at Melbourne 1900–1904
Chapter 14 Appointment as Professor of Geology at the University of Glasgow
Chapter 15 Early publications (1905–10) and research activity while in Glasgow
Chapter 16 Domestic, family and social activities and a social history intrusion
Chapter 17 Activities between 1910 and 1917
Chapter 18 1916–1919: work for the Government
Chapter 19 1919-29: return to Glasgow and subsequent activities
Chapter 20 Opposition to continental drift and the GSL presidential addresses on the origin of the Atlantic and Pacific oceans
Chapter 21 ‘Retirement’ with continued output
Chapter 22 The final fatal expedition to Peru
Chapter 23 Some of Gregory’s students
Chapter 24 Overall assessment and summary
Appendix 1 Published works of J. W. Gregory
Appendix 2 List of books published by Professor J. W. Gregory
Index