FRANK

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• FRANK RUTLEY (1842-1904)

RUTLEY (1842-1904)  , English geologist and petrographer, was born at Dover on, the 14th of May 1842 . : He was educated partly at Bonn; but his interest in geology was kindled at the Royal School of Mines, where he studied from 1862-64; he then joined the army, and served as lieutenant until 1867, when he became an Assistant Geologist on the Geological Survey . Working then in the Lake district, he began to make a special study of rocks and rock-forming minerals, and soon qualified as acting petrographer on the Geological Survey . For several years he worked in this capacity at the Museum in Jermyn Street: he described the volcanic rocks of E . Somerset and the Bristol district in 1876, and wrote special memoirs: on The Eruptive Rocks of Brent Tor (1878), and on The Felsitic Lavas of England and Wales (1885) . He was the author of an exceedingly useful little book on Mineralogy (1894; 12th ed., moo); also of The Study of Rocks (1879; 2nd ed., 1881), Rock forming Minerals (1888), and Granites and Greenstones (1894) ; and of a number of petrographical papers, dealing with perlitic and spherulitic structures, with the rocks of the Malvern Hills, &c . In 1882 he was appointed lecturer on Mineralogy in the Royal College of Science, and held this post until ill-health compelled him to retire in 1898 . He died in London on the 16th of May 1904 . Obituary (by H . B . Woodward), with bibliography, in Geol . Mug .