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DANIEL SHARPE (18o6-1856)

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Originally appearing in Volume V24, Page 812 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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DANIEL See also:SHARPE (18o6-1856)  , See also:English geologist, was See also:born in Marylebone, See also:London, on the 6th of See also:April 18o6 . His See also:mother was a See also:sister of See also:Samuel See also:Rogers, the poet . At the See also:age of 16 he entered the counting-See also:house of a Portuguese See also:merchant in London . At the age of 25, after spending a See also:year in See also:Portugal, he joined his See also:elder See also:brother as a partner in a Portuguese See also:mercantile business . As a geologist he first became known by his researches (1832–1840) on the See also:geological structure of the neighbourhood of See also:Lisbon . He studied the See also:Silurian rocks of the See also:Lake See also:District and See also:North See also:Wales (1842–1844), and afterwards investigated the structure of the See also:Alps (1854–1855) . He was elected F.R.S. in 185o . He published several essays on cleavage (1847–1852), and showed from the See also:evidence of distortion of organic remains that the direction of the pressure producing contortions in the rocks was perpendicular to the planes of cleavage . Most of his papers were published in the Quarterly See also:Journal of the Geological Society, but one " On the Arrangement of the Foliation and Cleavage of the Rocks of the North of See also:Scotland," was printed in the Phil . Trans . 1852 . He was author also of a Monograph on the See also:Cephalopoda of the See also:Chalk, published by the Palaeontographical Society (1853–1857) .

In 1856 he was elected See also:

president of the Geological Society, but he died in London, from the effects of an See also:accident, on the 31st of May that year .

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