See also:JOSEPH BEETE See also:JUKES (1811-1869)
, See also:English geologist, was See also:born at Summer See also:- HILL
- HILL (0. Eng. hyll; cf. Low Ger. hull, Mid. Dutch hul, allied to Lat. celsus, high, collis, hill, &c.)
- HILL, A
- HILL, AARON (1685-175o)
- HILL, AMBROSE POWELL
- HILL, DANIEL HARVEY (1821-1889)
- HILL, DAVID BENNETT (1843–1910)
- HILL, GEORGE BIRKBECK NORMAN (1835-1903)
- HILL, JAMES J
- HILL, JOHN (c. 1716-1775)
- HILL, MATTHEW DAVENPORT (1792-1872)
- HILL, OCTAVIA (1838– )
- HILL, ROWLAND (1744–1833)
- HILL, SIR ROWLAND (1795-1879)
Hill, near See also:Birmingham, on the loth of See also:October 1811
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He took his degree at See also:Cambridge in 1836
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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
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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 (a word common to many West German languages, cf. Ger. Feld, Dutch veld, possibly cognate with O.E. f olde, the earth, and ultimately with root of the Gr. irAaror, broad)
- FIELD, CYRUS WEST (1819-1892)
- FIELD, DAVID DUDLEY (18o5-1894)
- FIELD, EUGENE (1850-1895)
- FIELD, FREDERICK (18o1—1885)
- FIELD, HENRY MARTYN (1822-1907)
- FIELD, JOHN (1782—1837)
- FIELD, MARSHALL (183 1906)
- FIELD, NATHAN (1587—1633)
- FIELD, STEPHEN JOHNSON (1816-1899)
- FIELD, WILLIAM VENTRIS FIELD, BARON (1813-1907)
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
- BROWNE, EDWARD HAROLD (18,1–1891)
- BROWNE, ISAAC HAWKINS (1705-1760)
- BROWNE, JAMES (1793–1841)
- BROWNE, MAXIMILIAN ULYSSES, COUNT VON, BARON DE CAMUS AND MOUNTANY (1705-1757)
- BROWNE, PETER (?1665-1735)
- BROWNE, ROBERT (1550-1633)
- BROWNE, SIR JAMES (1839–1896)
- BROWNE, SIR THOMAS (1605-1682)
- BROWNE, WILLIAM (1591–1643)
- BROWNE, WILLIAM GEORGE (1768-1813)
Browne) (1871), to which is added a See also:chronological See also:list of Jukes's writings
.
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