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JOSEPH BEETE JUKES (1811-1869)

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Originally appearing in Volume V15, Page 547 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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JOSEPH BEETE See also:JUKES (1811-1869)  , See also:English geologist, was See also:born at Summer See also:Hill, near See also:Birmingham, on the loth of See also:October 1811 . He took his degree at See also:Cambridge in 1836 . He began the study of See also:geology under See also:Sedgwick, and in 1839 was appointed See also:geological surveyor of See also:Newfoundland . He returned to See also:England at the end of 184o, and in 1842 sailed as naturalist on See also:board H.M.S . " See also:Fly," despatched to survey Torres Strait, New See also:Guinea, and the See also:east See also:coast of See also:Australia . See also:Jukes landed in England again in See also:June 1846, and in See also:August received an See also:appointment on the geological survey of See also:Great See also:Britain . The See also:district to which he was first sent was See also:North See also:Wales . In 1847 he commenced the survey of the See also:South See also:Staffordshire See also:coal-See also:field and continued this See also:work during successive years after the See also:close of field-work in Wales . The results were published in his Geology of the South Staffordshire Coal-field (1853; 2nd ed . 1859), a work remarkable for its accuracy and philosophic treatment . In 185o he accepted the See also:post of See also:local director of the geological survey of See also:Ireland . The exhausting nature of this work slowly but surely wore out even his robust constitution and on the 29th of See also:July 1869 he died .

For many years he lectured as See also:

professor of geology, first at the Royal See also:Dublin Society's Museum of Irish See also:Industry, and afterwards at the Royal See also:College of See also:Science in Dublin . He was an admirable teacher, and his Student's See also:Manual was the favoured textbook of See also:British students for many years . During his See also:residence in Ireland he wrote an See also:article " On the Mode of Formation of some of the See also:River-valleys in the South of Ireland " (Quarterly Journ . Geol . See also:Soc . 1862), and in this now classic See also:essay he first clearly sketched the origin and development of See also:rivers . In later years he devoted much See also:attention to the relations between the Devonian See also:system and the Carboniferous rocks and Old Red See also:Sandstone . Jukes wrote many papers that were printed in the See also:London and Dublin geological See also:journals and other See also:periodicals . He edited, and in great measure wrote, See also:forty-two See also:memoirs explanatory of the maps of the south, east and See also:west of Ireland, and prepared a geological See also:map of Ireland on a See also:scale of 8 m. to an See also:inch . He was also the author of Excursions in and about Newfoundland (2 vols., 1842) ; Narrative of the See also:Surveying Voyage of H . M . S .

" Fly" (2 vols., 1847) ; A See also:

Sketch of the See also:Physical Structure of Australia (185o) ; Popular Physical Geology (1853); Student's Manual of Geology (1857; 2nd ed . 1862; a later edition was revised by A . See also:Geikie, 1872) ; the article " Geology " in the Ency . Brit . 8th ed . (1858) and School Manual of Geology (1863) . See Letters, of J . Beete Jukes, edited, with Connecting Memorial Notes, by his See also:Sister (C . A . See also:Browne) (1871), to which is added a See also:chronological See also:list of Jukes's writings .

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