officer of excise from old Welsh family in England
Miss Smith (mother) ; geologist ->William Smith (uncle) ;
trained in surveying, geology and geological map-making by his uncle ->William Smith; Rev Benjamin Richardson of Farleigh Hungerford
England, UK
Museum of the Yorkshire Philosophical Society (since 1826 museum keeper; later also secr.) ; Mars globe 1862/63 ; Figures and descriptions of the paleozoic fossils of Cornwall, Devon and West Somerset (London 1841) ; Illustrations to the geology of Yorkshire (York 1829) ; J.P.: Malvern Hills compared with the palaeozoic districts of Abberley; Palaeontological appendix to Professor John Phillips' Memoir on the Malvern Hills ; A catalogue of fossils from the mountain Limestone of Great Britain : extracted from the works of Messrs. Philips and Sowerby ; A guide to geology ; A Monograph of British belemnitidae; Figures and descriptions of the Palaeozoic fossils of Cornwall, Devon, and West Somerset: observed in the course of the Ordnance Geological Survey of that district; Geological map of the British Isles and adjacent coast of France ; Geology of Oxford and the valley of the Thames ; Illustrations of the geology of Yorkshire; or, A description of the strata and organic remains: accompanied by a geological map, sections and plates of the fossil plants and animals ; México ilustrado;
On a group of slate rocks ranging E.S.E. between the rivers Lune and Wharfe, from near Kirby Lonsdale to near Malham, and on the attendant phaenomena ; Phillips' Geology ; The carboniferous ammonoids from the Gilbertson collection ; The rivers, mountains, and sea-coast of Yorkshire : With essays on the climate, scenery, and ancient inhabitants of the county ; Vesuvius
William Vernon Harcourt (1789-1871); Brit.Ass.f Advancement of Science (1st ass.secr.1832-59); King's College London; Geological Survey; Royal Society
members of the Sowerby family ;
geological, fossil, astronomical, and cartographical lithography and map-making ; astronomical 3D model ; globe ;
AKL ; DNB; Martin Rudwick: Great Devonian Controversy 1985: 85ff. & 121ff. ; Jack Morrell: J. P. & Victorian Science 2005 ; Jürgen Blunck: Geschichte der Marsgloben, Der Globusfreund 43/44 (1995/96): 257-8 ; Nissen: Zoolog. Buchillustration 1969/78 ## 3160f. ; John Phillips's lithographic notebook reproduced in facsimile from the original at Oxford University Museum of Natural History ; Jack Morrell: The legacy of William Smith: the case of John Phillips in the 1820s, Archives of Natural History 16 (1989): 319-335;
since 1844, Professor of Geology at the University of Dublin, since 1853 in Oxford; Royal Society, London ; Oxford Museum of Natural History; 1860-74 first professor of geology at Oxford University.
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