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See also: RAMSEY, See also:SIR See also:ANDREW CROMBIE (1814—1891) ,' See also:British geologist, was See also:born at See also:Glasgow on the 31st of See also:January 1814, being the son 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:Ramsay, manufacturing chemist. He was for a 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 actually engaged in business, but from spending his holidays in See also:Arran he became interested in the study of the rocks of that See also:island, and was thus led to acquire the rudiments of See also:geology. A See also:geological See also:model of Arran, made by him on the See also:scale of two inches to the mile, was exhibited at the See also:- MEETING (from " to meet," to come together, assemble, 0. Eng. metals ; cf. Du. moeten, Swed. mota, Goth. gamotjan, &c., derivatives of the Teut. word for a meeting, seen in O. Eng. Wit, moot, an assembly of the people; cf. witanagemot)
meeting of the British Association at Glasgow in 184o, and attracted the See also:notice of Sir R. I. See also:Murchison, with the result that he received from De la Beche an See also:appointment on the Geological Survey, on which he served for See also:forty years, from 1841 to 1881. He was first stationed at See also:Tenby, and to that circumstance may be attributed the fact that so much of his geological See also:work dealt with See also:Wales. His first See also:book, The Geology of the Isle of Arran, was published in 1841. In 1845 he became See also:local director for See also:Great See also:Britain, but he continued to carry on a certain amount of See also:- FIELD (a word common to many West German languages, cf. Ger. Feld, Dutch veld, possibly cognate with O.E. f olde, the earth, and ultimately with root of the Gr. irAaror, broad)
- FIELD, CYRUS WEST (1819-1892)
- FIELD, DAVID DUDLEY (18o5-1894)
- FIELD, EUGENE (1850-1895)
- FIELD, FREDERICK (18o1—1885)
- FIELD, HENRY MARTYN (1822-1907)
- FIELD, JOHN (1782—1837)
- FIELD, MARSHALL (183 1906)
- FIELD, NATHAN (1587—1633)
- FIELD, STEPHEN JOHNSON (1816-1899)
- FIELD, WILLIAM VENTRIS FIELD, BARON (1813-1907)
field-work until 1854. To the first See also:volume of the See also:Memoirs of the Geological Survey (1846) he contributed a now classic See also:essay, " On the Denudation of See also:South Wales and the Adjacent Counties of See also:England," in which he advocated the See also:power of the See also:sea to See also:form great plains of denudation, although at the time he under-estimated the See also:influence of subaerial agents in sculpturing the scenery. In 1866 he published The Geology of See also:North Wales (vol. iii. of the Memoirs), of which a second edition was published in 1881. He was chosen See also:professor of geology at University See also:College, See also:London, in 1848, and afterwards lecturer in the same subject at the School of Mines in 1851. Eleven years later he was elected to the presidential See also:chair of the Geological Society, and in 1872 he succeeded Murchison as director-See also:general of the Geological Survey. In 188o he acted as See also: president of the British Association at See also:Swansea, and in the following See also:year retired from the public service, receiving at the same time the See also:honour of See also:knighthood. In 186o he published a little book entitled The Old Glaciers of See also:Switzerland and North Wales. The study of this subject led him to discuss the Glacial Origin of Certain Lakes in Switzerland, the See also:Black See also:Forest, &c. He dealt also with the origin of The Red Rocks of England (1871) and The See also:River Courses of England and Wales (1872). He was especially interested in tracing out the causes which have determined the See also:physical configuration of a See also:district, and he devoted much See also:attention to the effects produced by See also:ice, his name being identified with the See also:hypothesis, which, however, has never commanded general assent, that in some cases See also:lake basins have been scooped out by glaciers. A See also:master in the broader questions of stratigraphy and physical geology, he was a dear exponent of facts, but rather impatient of details, while hisoriginal and often bold theories, expressed both in lectures and in writings, stirred others with See also:enthusiasm and undoubtedly exercised great influence on the progress of geology. His lectures to working men, given in 1863 in the Museum of See also:Practical Geology, formed the See also:nucleus of his famous Physical Geology and See also:Geography of Great Britain (5th ed., 1878; 6th ed., by H. B. See also:Woodward, 1894). He received a Royal See also:medal in 188o from the Royal Society, of which he became a See also:fellow in 1862; he was also the recipient of the See also:Neill See also:prize of the Royal Society of See also:Edinburgh in 1866, and of the See also:Wollaston medal of the Geological Society of London in 1871. He died at See also:Beaumaris on the 9th of See also:December 1891.
See Memoir, by Sir A. See also: Geikie, 1895.
End of Article: RAMSEY, SIR ANDREW CROMBIE (1814—1891)
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