Search over 40,000 articles from the original, classic Encyclopedia Britannica, 11th Edition.
|
See also:ROBERT See also:ETHERIDGE (1819-1903) , See also:English geologist and palaeontologist, was See also:born at See also:Ross, in See also:Herefordshire, on the 3rd of See also:December 1819 . After an See also:ordinary school See also:education in his native See also:town, he obtained employment in a business See also:house in See also:Bristol . There he devoted his spare See also:time to natural See also:history pursuits, and in 185o was appointed See also:curator of the museum attached to the Bristol Philosophical Institution . He also became lecturer on See also:botany in the Bristol medical school . In 1857, through the See also:influence of See also:Sir See also:Roderick I . See also:Murchison, he was appointed to a See also:post in the Museum of See also:Practical See also:Geology in See also:London, and eventually became palaeontologist to the See also:Geological Survey . In 1865 he assisted Prof . See also:Huxley in the preparation of a See also:Catalogue of Fossils in the Museum, of Practical Geology . His See also:chief See also:work for many years was in naming the fossils collected during the progress of the Geological Survey, and in supplying the lists that were appended to numerous See also:official See also:memoirs . In this way he acquired an exceptional knowledge of See also:British fossils, and he ultimately prepared an elaborate work entitled Fossils of the British Islands, Strati graphically and Zoologically arranged . Only the first See also:volume dealing with the Palaeozoic See also:species was published (1888) . See also:Etheridge also was author of several papers on the See also:Rhaetic Beds, and of an important See also:essay on the See also:Physical Structure of See also:North See also:Devon, and on the Palaeontological Value of the Devonian Fossils (1867) .
He edited, and in the See also:main re-wrote, the second See also:part of a new edition of See also: |
|
|
[back] JOHN WESLEY ETHERIDGE (1804-1866) |
[next] ETHERS |
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.