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See also: British geologist, one of the pioneers in See also: South See also: African geology, was See also: born in 1813, in the See also: district of See also: Uitenhage, Cape Colony
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Having qualified as M.D. he settled in early See also: life as a medical practitioner at Grahamstown, subsequently becoming F.R.C.S
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In 1839 his See also: interest was aroused in geology, and from that date he " devoted the leisure of a long and successful medical practice " to the pursuit of See also: geological science
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In 1857 he published an account of the rocks and fossils of Uitenhage (the latter described more fully by R
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Tate, Quart
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Journal Geol
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See also: Soc., 1867)
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He also obtained many fossil reptilia from the See also: Karroo beds, and presented specimens to the British Museum
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These were described by See also: Sir See also: Richard See also: Owen
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Atherstone's See also: identification in 1867 as a See also: diamond of a crystal found at De See also: Kalk near the junction of the Riet and See also: Vaal See also: rivers, led indirectly to the establishment of the See also: great diamond industry of South See also: Africa
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He encouraged the workings at See also: Jagersfontein, and he also called See also: attention to the diamantiferous neck at Kimberley
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He was one of the founders of the Geological Society of South Africa at See also: Johannesburg in 1895; and for some years previously he was a member of the Cape parliament
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He died at Grahamstown, on the 26th of See also: June 1898
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See the obituary by T
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See also: Rupert See also: Jones, Natural Science, vol. xiv
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See also: January 1899)
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