1. Dean D. R. (1992) James Hutton and the History of Geology (Cornell University Press, Ithaca and London).
2. Hutton J. (1997) in James Hutton in the Field and in the Study, ed Dean D. R. (Delmar, New York) Being an augmented reprinting of Vol. III of Hutton’s Theory of the Earth (I, II, 1795), as first published by Sir Archibald Geikie (1899).
3. James Hutton’s Edinburgh: the historical, social and political background;McIntyre;Earth Sciences History,1997
4. McIntyre D. B. McKirdy A. (1997) James Hutton: The Founder of Modern Geology (Stationery Office, Edinburgh).