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ETHERIDGE, ROBERT (1819-1903)

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ETHERIDGE, See also:ROBERT (1819-1903) , See also:English geologist and palaeontologist, was See also:born at See also:Ross, in See also:Herefordshire, on the 3rd of See also:December 1819. After an See also:ordinary school See also:education in his native See also:town, he obtained employment in a business See also:house in See also:Bristol. There he devoted his spare See also:time to natural See also:history pursuits, and in 185o was appointed See also:curator of the museum attached to the Bristol Philosophical Institution. He also became lecturer on See also:botany in the Bristol medical school. In 1857, through the See also:influence of See also:Sir See also:Roderick I. See also:Murchison, he was appointed to a See also:post in the Museum of See also:Practical See also:Geology in See also:London, and eventually became palaeontologist to the See also:Geological Survey. In 1865 he assisted Prof. See also:Huxley in the preparation of a See also:Catalogue of Fossils in the Museum, of Practical Geology. His See also:chief See also:work for many years was in naming the fossils collected during the progress of the Geological Survey, and in supplying the lists that were appended to numerous See also:official See also:memoirs. In this way he acquired an exceptional knowledge of See also:British fossils, and he ultimately prepared an elaborate work entitled Fossils of the British Islands, Strati graphically and Zoologically arranged. Only the first See also:volume dealing with the Palaeozoic See also:species was published (1888). Etheridge also was author of several papers on the See also:Rhaetic Beds, and of an important See also:essay on the See also:Physical Structure of See also:North See also:Devon, and on the Palaeontological Value of the Devonian Fossils (1867).

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main re-wrote, the second See also:part of a new edition of See also:John See also:Phillips' See also:Manual of Geology—entitled Stratigraphical Geology and Palaeontology (1885). He was elected F.R.S. in 1871, and was See also:president of the Geological Society in 1881-1882. In 1881 Etheridge was transferred from the Geological Survey to the geological See also:department of the British Museum, where he served as assistant keeper until 1891. He died at See also:Chelsea, London, on the 18th of December 1903. Memoir by Dr See also:Henry See also:Woodward (with See also:list of See also:works and portrait) in Geological See also:Magazine, See also:January 1904; also Memoir by H. B. See also:Wood-See also:ward (with portrait) in Proc. Bristol Nat. See also:Soc. x. 175.

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