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See also: English mathematician and geologist, was See also: born at See also: Kingston-on-Soar, in Nottingham-See also: shire, on the 2nd of See also: February 1793
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In his youth he learned See also: practical See also: agriculture in See also: Norfolk and afterwards took an extensive See also: farm in See also: Suffolk
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In this he was unsuccessful
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At the age of See also: thirty he entered St See also: Peter's See also: College, Cambridge, taking his degree of B.A. in 1827 as seventh wrangler and M.A. in 183o
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In 1833 he published Elements of Trigonometry
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He was distinguished for his mathematical knowledge, and became eminently successful as a private tutor, many of his pupils attaining high distinction
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About 1833, through meeting Sedgw•ick at Barmouth and joining him in several excursions, he became intensely interested in geology
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Thereafter, in papers published by the Cambridge Philosophical Society and the See also: Geological Society of See also: London, he entered largely into mathematical inquiries connected with geology, dealing with the effects which an elevatory force acting from below would produce on a portion of the See also: earth's crust, in fissures, faults, &c
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In this way he discussed the See also: elevation and denudation of the Lake See also: district, the See also: Wealden See also: area, and the Bas Boulonnais
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He wrote also on the motion of glaciers and the transport of erratic blocks
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So ably had he grappled with many difficult problems that in 185o the Wollaston medal was awarded to him by the Geological Society of London; and in the following See also: year he was elected president
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In his second address (1853) he criticized See also: Elie de See also: Beaumont's theory of the elevation of See also: mountain-chains and showed the imperfect evidence on which it rested
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He brought before the Geological Society in 1851 an important paper On the Causes which may have produced changes in the Earth's superficial Temperature . He was president of theSee also: British Association for 1853
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His later researches included observations on the conductivity of various substances for heat, and on the effect of pressure on the temperature of See also: fusion of different bodies
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He died at Cambridge on the 13th of See also: October 1866
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Obituary by W
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W
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See also: Smyth, in Quart
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Journ
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Geol
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See also: Soc
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(1867), p. See also: xxix
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