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ROBERT WERE See also: English geologist and natural philosopher, was See also: born at See also: Falmouth on the 26th of See also: April 1789
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He was a member of the Society of See also: Friends, and was descended from members who had long settled in See also: Cornwall, although he was not related to See also: George See also: Fox who had introduced the community into the county
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He was distinguished for his researches on the See also: internal temperature of the See also: earth, being the first to prove that the heat increased definitely with the See also: depth; his observations being conducted in Cornish mines from 1815 for a See also: period of See also: forty years
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In 1829 he commenced a series of experiments on the artificial production of See also: miniature metalliferous See also: veins by means of the long-continued influence of electric currents, and his See also: main results were published in Observations on See also: Mineral Veins (See also: Rep
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Royal Cornwall Polytech
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See also: Soc., 1836)
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He was one of the founders in 1833 of the Royal Cornwall Poly-technic Society
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He constructed in 1834 an improved See also: form of deflector dipping needle
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In 1848 he was elected F.R.S
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His garden at Penjerrick near Falmouth became noted for the number of exotic See also: plants which he had naturalized
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He died on the 25th of See also: July 1877
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(See A See also: Catalogue of the See also: Works of Robert Were Fox, F.R.S., with a Sketch of his See also: Life, by J
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H . See also: Collins, 1878.)
His daughter, See also: CAROLINE Fox (1810—1871), See also: horn at Falmouth on the 24th of May 1819, is well known as the authoress of a
See also: diary, recording memories of many distinguished See also: people, such as See also: John
See also: Stuart See also: Mill, John Sterling and' Carlyle
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Selections from her diary and
See also: correspondence (1835–1871) were published under the title of Memories of Old Friends (ed. by H
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N
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See also: Pym, 1881; 2nd ed., 1882)
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She died on the 12th of See also: January 1871
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