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HUNT, ROBERT (1807-1887)

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HUNT, See also:ROBERT (1807-1887) , See also:English natural philosopher, was See also:born at See also:Devonport on the 6th of See also:September 1807. His See also:father, a See also:naval officer, was drowned while Robert was a youth. He began to study in See also:London for the medical profession, but See also:ill-See also:health caused him to return to the See also:west of See also:England, and in 184o he became secretary to the Royal See also:Cornwall See also:Polytechnic Society at See also:Falmouth. Here he was brought into contact with Robert Were See also:Fox, and carried on some See also:physical and chemical investigations with him. He took up See also:photography with See also:great zeal, following See also:Daguerre's See also:discovery, and introducing new processes. His See also:Manual of Photography (1841, ed. 5, 1857) was the first English See also:treatise on the subject. He also experimented generally on the See also:action of See also:light, and published Researches on Light (1844). In 1845 he accepted the invitation of See also:Sir See also:Henry de la Beche to become keeper of See also:mining records at the Museum of Economic (afterwards " See also:Practical ") See also:Geology, and when the school of mines was established in 1851 he lectured for two years on See also:mechanical See also:science, and afterwards for a See also:short See also:time on experimental physics. His See also:principal See also:work was the collection and editing of the See also:Mineral See also:Statistics of the See also:United See also:Kingdom, and this he continued to the date of his retirement (1883), when the mining See also:record See also:office was transferred to the See also:Home Office. He was elected F.R.S. in 1854. In 1884 he published a large See also:volume on See also:British Mining, in which the subject was dealt with very fully from an See also:historical as well as a practical point of view.

He also edited the fifth and some later See also:

editions of Ure's See also:Dictionary of Arts, Mines and Manufactures. He died in London on the 17th of See also:October 1887. A mineralogical museum at See also:Redruth has been established in his memory.

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