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See also:RALPH See also:TATE (1840-1901) , See also:British geologist, was See also:born at See also:Alnwick in See also:Northumberland in 184o . He was a See also:nephew of See also:George See also:Tate (18o5-1871), naturalist and archaeologist, an active member of the See also:Berwickshire Naturalists' See also:Club . He was educated at the See also:Cheltenham Training See also:College and at the Royal School of Mines, and in 1861 he was appointed teacher of natural See also:science at the Philosophical Institution in See also:Belfast . He there studied See also:botany, and published his See also:Flora Belfastinesis (1863); and he also investigated the Cretaceous and Liassic rocks of See also:Antrim, II bnitging his results before the See also:Geological Society of See also:London . In 1864 he was appointed assistant in the museum of that society . In 1867 he went on an exploring expedition to See also:Nicaragua and See also:Venezuela . In 1871 he was appointed to the See also:mining school established by the See also:Cleveland ironmasters first at See also:Darlington and then at See also:Redcar . Here he made a See also:special study of the See also:Lias and its fossils, in See also:conjunction with the Rev . J . F . See also:Blake, and the results were published in an important See also:work, The See also:Yorkshire Lias (1876), in which the See also:life-See also:history of the strata was first worked out in detail . In 1875 Tate was appointed See also:professor of natural science in the university of See also:Adelaide, See also:South See also:Australia . He now gave especial See also:attention to the See also:recent and See also:tertiary See also:mollusca of Australia . He was the See also:chief founder of the Royal Society of South Australia, and was in 1893 See also:president of the Australian Association for the See also:Advancement of Science . He died at Adelaide on the 20th of See also:September 1901 . |
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