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James Hutton’s Edinburgh
Leader: Beverly Bergman
2026 is a special year for our local Scottish geological legend James Hutton! EGS is celebrating his tercentenary with a special Hutton’s Edinburgh excursion. Join our local James Hutton boffin with a trail to key sites across the city associated with Hutton’ life. With the aid of old maps and pictures, see where James Hutton lived with his family when he was a child, follow his route to school and hear about some of the events that would have shaped his childhood. Visit his final resting place in Greyfriars Kirkyard and pay respects to this great visionary. Then make our way up to the site of the house on St John’s Hill that he built when he returned to Edinburgh and where he lived with his three sisters, now the site of the Hutton Memorial Garden, and see how the view from the garden inspired his geological thinking. The walk will finish close to where he socialised with such luminaries as Joseph Black and Adam Smith, to enjoy a drink to his memory and to continue the historical stories of the great man himself.