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See also:PHILLIPS, See also:JOHN (1800—1874) , See also:English geologist, was See also:born on the 25th of See also:December 1800 at Marden in See also:Wiltshire. His See also:father belonged to an old Welsh See also:family, but settled in See also:England as an officer of See also:excise and married the See also:sister of See also:- WILLIAM
- WILLIAM (1143-1214)
- WILLIAM (1227-1256)
- WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
- WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
- WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
- WILLIAM, 13TH
William See also:- SMITH
- SMITH, ADAM (1723–1790)
- SMITH, ALEXANDER (183o-1867)
- SMITH, ANDREW JACKSON (1815-1897)
- SMITH, CHARLES EMORY (1842–1908)
- SMITH, CHARLES FERGUSON (1807–1862)
- SMITH, CHARLOTTE (1749-1806)
- SMITH, COLVIN (1795—1875)
- SMITH, EDMUND KIRBY (1824-1893)
- SMITH, G
- SMITH, GEORGE (1789-1846)
- SMITH, GEORGE (184o-1876)
- SMITH, GEORGE ADAM (1856- )
- SMITH, GERRIT (1797–1874)
- SMITH, GOLDWIN (1823-191o)
- SMITH, HENRY BOYNTON (1815-1877)
- SMITH, HENRY JOHN STEPHEN (1826-1883)
- SMITH, HENRY PRESERVED (1847– )
- SMITH, JAMES (1775–1839)
- SMITH, JOHN (1579-1631)
- SMITH, JOHN RAPHAEL (1752–1812)
- SMITH, JOSEPH, JR
- SMITH, MORGAN LEWIS (1822–1874)
- SMITH, RICHARD BAIRD (1818-1861)
- SMITH, ROBERT (1689-1768)
- SMITH, SIR HENRY GEORGE WAKELYN
- SMITH, SIR THOMAS (1513-1577)
- SMITH, SIR WILLIAM (1813-1893)
- SMITH, SIR WILLIAM SIDNEY (1764-1840)
- SMITH, SYDNEY (1771-1845)
- SMITH, THOMAS SOUTHWOOD (1788-1861)
- SMITH, WILLIAM (1769-1839)
- SMITH, WILLIAM (c. 1730-1819)
- SMITH, WILLIAM (fl. 1596)
- SMITH, WILLIAM FARRAR (1824—1903)
- SMITH, WILLIAM HENRY (1808—1872)
- SMITH, WILLIAM HENRY (1825—1891)
- SMITH, WILLIAM ROBERTSON (1846-'894)
Smith, the " Father of English See also:Geology." Both parents dying when he was a See also:child, Phillips came under the See also:charge of his See also:uncle; and after being educated at various See also:schools, he accompanied Smith on his wanderings in connexion with his See also:geological maps. In thespring of 1824 Smith went to See also:York to deliver a course of lectures on geology, and his See also:nephew accompanied him. Phillips accepted engagements in the See also:principal See also:Yorkshire towns to arrange their museums and give courses of lectures on the collections contained therein. York became his See also:residence, where he obtained, in 1825, the situation of keeper of the Yorkshire museum and secretary of the Yorkshire Philosophical Society. From that centre he extended his operations to towns beyond the See also:county; and in 1831 he included University See also:College, See also:London, in the See also:sphere of his activity. In that See also:year the See also:British Association for the See also:Advancement of See also:Science was founded at York, and Phillips was one of the active minds who organized its machinery. He became in 1832 the first assistant secretary, a See also:post which he held until 18J9. In 1834 he accepted the professorship of geology at See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
King's College, London, but retained his post at York. In 1834 he was elected F.R.S.; in later years he received hon. degrees of LL.D. from See also:Dublin and See also:Cambridge, and D.C.L. from See also:- OXFORD
- OXFORD, EARLS OF
- OXFORD, EDWARD DE VERE, 17TH EARL
- OXFORD, JOHN DE VERE, 13TH EARL OF (1443-1513)
- OXFORD, PROVISIONS OF
- OXFORD, ROBERT DE VERE, 9TH EARL OF (1362-1392)
- OXFORD, ROBERT HARLEY, 1ST
Oxford; while in 1845 he was awarded the See also:Wollaston See also:Medal by the Geological Society of London. In 1840 he resigned his charge of the York museum and was appointed on the See also:staff of the geological survey of See also:Great See also:Britain under De la Beche. He spent some 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 in studying the Palaeozoic fossils of See also:Devon, See also:Cornwall and See also:West See also:Somerset, of which he published a descriptive memoir (1841); and he made a detailed survey of the region of the See also:Malvern Hills, of which he prepared the elaborate See also:account that appears in vol. ii. of the See also:Memoirs of the Survey (1848). In 1844 he became See also:professor of geology in the university of Dublin. Nine years later, on the See also:death of H. E. See also:Strickland, who had acted as substitute for See also:Dean See also:Buckland in the readership of geology in the university of Oxford, Phillips succeeded to the post of See also:deputy, and at the dean's death in 1856 became himself reader, a post which he held to the time of his death. During his residence in Oxford he took a leading See also:part in the See also:foundation and arrangement of the new museum erected in 1859 (see his Notices of Rocks and Fossils in the University Museum, 1863; and The Oxford Museum, by H. W. See also:Acland and J. See also:Ruskin, 1859; reprinted with additions 1893). Phillips was also keeper of the Ashmolean museum from 1854—1870. In 1859—186o he was See also:president of the Geological Society of London, and in 1865 president of the British Association. He dined at All Souls College on the 23rd of See also:April 1874, but on leaving he slipped and See also:fell down a See also:flight of See also:- STONE
- STONE (0. Eng. shin; the word is common to Teutonic languages, cf. Ger. Stein, Du. steen, Dan. and Swed. sten; the root is also seen in Gr. aria, pebble)
- STONE, CHARLES POMEROY (1824-1887)
- STONE, EDWARD JAMES (1831-1897)
- STONE, FRANK (1800-1859)
- STONE, GEORGE (1708—1764)
- STONE, LUCY [BLACKWELL] (1818-1893)
- STONE, MARCUS (184o— )
- STONE, NICHOLAS (1586-1647)
stone stairs, and died on the following See also:day.
From the time he wrote his first See also:paper " On the Direction of the Diluvial Currents in Yorkshire " (1827), down to the last days of his See also:life, Phillips continued a See also:constant contributor to the literature of science. The pages of the Philosophical See also:Magazine, the See also:Journal of the Geological Society, the Geological Magazine and other publications contain valuable essays by him. He was also the author of numerous See also:separate See also:works, which were of great benefit ,in extending a See also:sound knowledge of geology. Among these may be specially mentioned: Illustrations of the Geology of Yorkshire (in two parts, 1829 and 1836; 2nd ed. of pt. 1 in 1835, 3rd ed., edited by R. See also:Etheridge, in 1875) ; A See also:Treatise on Geology (1837–1839) ; Memoirs of William Smith (1844); The See also:Rivers, Mountains and See also:Sea-See also:Coast of Yorkshire (1853); See also:Manual of Geology, See also:Practical and Theoretical (1855); Life on the See also:Earth: its Origin and See also:Succession (186o) ; See also:Vesuvius (1869) ; Geology of Oxford and the Valley of the See also:Thames (1871). To these should be added his Monograph of British Belemnitidae (1865), for the Palaeontographical Society, and his geological See also:map of the British Isles (1847).
' See See also:Biographical Memoir, with portrait, in Geol. Mag. (See also:July 1870).
End of Article: PHILLIPS, JOHN (1800—1874)
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