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See also:MEEK, See also:FIELDING See also:BRADFORD (1817—1876) , See also:American geologist and palaeontologist, the son of a lawyer, was See also:born at See also:Madison, See also:Indiana, on the loth of See also:December 1817. In See also:early See also:life he was in business as a See also:merchant, but his leisure See also:hours were devoted to See also:collecting fossils and studying the rocks of the neighbourhood of Madison. Being unsuccessful in business he turned his whole See also:attention to See also:science, and in 1848 he gained employment on the U.S. See also:Geological Survey in See also:Iowa, and subsequently in See also:Wisconsin and See also:Minnesota. In 1852 he became assistant to See also:Professor See also:- JAMES
- JAMES (Gr. 'IlrKw,l3or, the Heb. Ya`akob or Jacob)
- JAMES (JAMES FRANCIS EDWARD STUART) (1688-1766)
- JAMES, 2ND EARL OF DOUGLAS AND MAR(c. 1358–1388)
- JAMES, DAVID (1839-1893)
- JAMES, EPISTLE OF
- JAMES, GEORGE PAYNE RAINSFOP
- JAMES, HENRY (1843— )
- JAMES, JOHN ANGELL (1785-1859)
- JAMES, THOMAS (c. 1573–1629)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (1842–1910)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (d. 1827)
James See also:- HALL
- HALL (generally known as SCHWABISCH-HALL, tc distinguish it from the small town of Hall in Tirol and Bad-Hall, a health resort in Upper Austria)
- HALL (O.E. heall, a common Teutonic word, cf. Ger. Halle)
- HALL, BASIL (1788-1844)
- HALL, CARL CHRISTIAN (1812–1888)
- HALL, CHARLES FRANCIS (1821-1871)
- HALL, CHRISTOPHER NEWMAN (1816—19oz)
- HALL, EDWARD (c. 1498-1547)
- HALL, FITZEDWARD (1825-1901)
- HALL, ISAAC HOLLISTER (1837-1896)
- HALL, JAMES (1793–1868)
- HALL, JAMES (1811–1898)
- HALL, JOSEPH (1574-1656)
- HALL, MARSHALL (1790-1857)
- HALL, ROBERT (1764-1831)
- HALL, SAMUEL CARTER (5800-5889)
- HALL, SIR JAMES (1761-1832)
- HALL, WILLIAM EDWARD (1835-1894)
Hall at See also:Albany, and worked at palaeontology with him until 1858. Meanwhile in 1853 he accompanied Dr F. V. See also:Hayden in an exploration of the " See also:Bad Lands " of Dakota a.nd brought back valuable collections of fossils. In 1858 he went to See also:Washington, where he devoted his See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time to the palaeontological See also:work of the See also:United States geological and See also:geographical surveys, his work bearing " the See also:stamp of the most faithful and conscientious See also:research," and raising him to the highest See also:rank as' a palaeontologist. Besides many See also:separate contributions to science, he prepared with W. M. Gabb (2839—1878), two volumes on the palaeontology of See also:California (1864—1869); and also a See also:Report on the Invertebrate Cretaceous and See also:Tertiary Fossils of the Upper See also:Missouri See also:Country (1876). He died at Washington, on the 22nd of December 1876.
End of Article: MEEK, FIELDING BRADFORD (1817—1876)
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