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JOHN WILLIAM SALTER (1820-1869)

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Originally appearing in Volume V24, Page 92 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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JOHN See also:WILLIAM See also:SALTER (1820-1869)  , See also:English naturalist and palaeontologist, was See also:born on the 15th of See also:December '82o . He was apprenticed in 1835 to See also:James de Carle See also:Sowerby, and was engaged in See also:drawing and See also:engraving the plates for Sowerby's See also:Mineral Conchology, the Supplement to his English See also:Botany, and, other Natural See also:History See also:works . In 1842 he was employed for a See also:short See also:time by See also:Sedgwick in arranging the fossils in the Woodwardian Museum at See also:Cambridge, and he accompanied the See also:professor on several See also:geological expeditions (1842-1845) into See also:Wales . In 1846 he was appointed on the See also:staff of the Geological Survey and worked under See also:Edward See also:Forbes until 1854; he was then appointed palaeontologist to the survey and gave his See also:chief See also:attention to the palaeozoic fossils, spending much time in Wales and the border counties . He contributed the palaeontological portion to A . C . See also:Ramsay's Memoir on the See also:Geology of See also:North Wales (1866), assisted See also:Murchison in his See also:work on Siluria (1854 and later See also:editions), and Sedgwick by preparing A See also:Catalogue of the Collection of See also:Cambrian and See also:Silurian Fossils contained in the Geological Museum of the University of Cambridge (1873) . See also:Salter prepared several of the Decades of the Geological Survey and became the leading authority on See also:Trilobites, contributing to the Palaeontographical Society four parts of A Monograph of See also:British Trilobites (1864-1867), He resigned his See also:post on the Geological Survey in 1863, and died on the 2nd of See also:August 1869 .

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