|
See also: English geologist and naturalist, was See also: born in See also: London on the 7th of See also: October 1832
.
He was educated in private See also: schools in See also: Brighton and See also: Paris, and with a view to the adoption of a See also: mercantile career spent two years in a business See also: house at Civita Vecchia
.
On returning to See also: England in 1851 he was induced to enter the newly established Royal School of Mines, which his younger See also: brother See also: Henry F
.
See also: Blanford (1834-1893), afterwards See also: head of the See also: Indian Meteorological Department, had already joined; he then spent a See also: year in the See also: mining school at See also: Freiburg, and towards the close of 1854 both he and his brother obtained posts on the See also: Geological Survey of See also: India
.
In that service he remained for twenty-seven years, retiring in 1882
.
He was engaged in various parts of India, in the Raniganj coalfield, in Bombay, and in the coalfield near Talchir, where boulders considered to have been ice-See also: borne were found in the Talchir strata—a remarkable See also: discovery See also: con-firmed by subsequent observations of other geologists in See also: equivalent strata elsewhere
.
His See also: attention was given not only to geology but to zoology, and especially to the See also: land-See also: mollusca and to the vertebrates
.
In 1866 he was attached to the Abyssinian expedition, accompanying the army to See also: Magdala and back; and in 1871-1872 he was appointed a member of the Persian Boundary Commission
.
The best use was made of the exceptional opportunities of studying the natural See also: history of those countries
.
For his many contributions to geological science Dr Blanford was in 1883 awarded the Wollaston medal by the Geological Society of London; and for his labours on the zoology and geology of See also: British India he received in 1901 a royal medal from the Royal Society
.
He had been elected F.R.S. in 1874, and was chosen president of the Geological Society in 1888
.
He was created C.I.E. in 1904
.
He died in London on the 23rd of See also: June 1905
.
His See also: principal publications were: Observations on the Geology and Zoology of See also: Abyssinia (187o), and See also: Manual of the Geology of India, with H
.
B
.
Medlicott (1879)
.
Biography, with bibliography and portrait, in Geological See also: Magazine, See also: January 1905
.
|
|
|
[back] SIR GILBERT BLANE (1749-1834) |
[next] BLANK (from the Fr. blanc, white) |
There are no comments yet for this article.
Do not copy, download, transfer, or otherwise replicate the site content in whole or in part.
Links to articles and home page are encouraged.