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CHARLES LAPWORTH (1842– )

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Originally appearing in Volume V16, Page 208 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CHARLES See also:LAPWORTH (1842– )  , See also:English geologist, was See also:born at See also:Faringdon in See also:Berkshire on the 3oth of See also:September 1842 . He was educated partly in the See also:village of See also:Buckland in the same See also:county, and afterwards in the training See also:college at Culham, near See also:Oxford (1862–1864) . He was then appointed See also:master in a school connected with the Episcopal See also:church at See also:Galashiels, where he remained eleven years . See also:Geology came to absorb all his leisure See also:time, and he commenced to investigate the See also:Silurian rocks of the See also:Southern Uplands, and to study the See also:graptolites and other fossils which See also:mark horizons in the See also:great See also:series of See also:Lower Palaeozoic rocks . His first See also:paper on the Lower Silurian rocks of Galashiels was published in 187o, and from that date onwards he continued to enrich our knowledge of the southern uplands of See also:Scotland until the publication by the See also:Geological Society of his masterly papers on The See also:Moffat Series (1878) and The See also:Girvan See also:Succession (1882.) . Meanwhile in 1875 he became an assistant master in the See also:Madras College, St See also:Andrews, and in 1881 See also:professor of geology and See also:mineralogy (afterwards geology and physiography) in the See also:Mason College, now University of See also:Birmingham . In 1882 he started See also:work in the Durness-Eriboll See also:district of the Scottish See also:Highlands, and made out the true succession of the rocks, and interpreted the complicated structure which had baffled most of the previous observers . His results were published in " The See also:Secret of the Highlands " (Geol . Mag., 1883) . His subsequent work includes papers on the See also:Cambrian rocks of See also:Nuneaton and the Ordovician rocks of See also:Shropshire . The See also:term Ordovician was introduced by him in 1879 for the strata between the See also:base of the Lower See also:Llandovery formation and that of the Lower Arenig; and it was intended to See also:settle the confusion arising from the use by some writers of Lower Silurian and by others of Upper Cambrian for the same set of rocks . The term Ordovician is now generally adopted .

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Lapworth was elected F.R.S. in 1888, he received a royal See also:medal in 1891, and was awarded the See also:Wollaston medal by the Geological Society in 1899 . He was See also:president of the Geological Society, 1902–1904 . His Inter-mediate See also:Text-See also:book of Geology was published in 1899 . See See also:article, with portrait and bibliography, in Geol . Mag . (See also:July 1901) .

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