Charles Darwin, Geologist"Pleasure of imagination. I a geologist have illdefined notion of land covered with ocean, former animals, slow force cracking surface &c truly poetical."from Charles Darwin's Notebook M, 1838 The early nineteenth century was a golden age for the study of geology. New discoveries in the field were greeted with the same enthusiasm reserved today for advances in the biomedical sciences. In her long awaited account of Charles Darwin's intellectual