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RUTLEY, FRANK (1842-1904)

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RUTLEY, See also:FRANK (1842-1904) , See also:English geologist and petrographer, was See also:born at See also:Dover on, the 14th of May 1842. : He was educated partly at See also:Bonn; but his See also:interest in See also:geology was kindled at the Royal School of Mines, where he studied from 1862-64; he then joined the See also:army, and served as See also:lieutenant until 1867, when he became an Assistant Geologist on the See also:Geological Survey. Working then in the See also:Lake See also:district, he began to make a See also:special study of rocks and See also:rock-forming minerals, and soon qualified as acting petrographer on the Geological Survey. For several years he worked in this capacity at the Museum in Jermyn See also:Street: he described the volcanic rocks of E. See also:Somerset and the See also:Bristol district in 1876, and wrote special See also:memoirs: on The Eruptive Rocks of Brent Tor (1878), and on The Felsitic Lavas of See also:England and See also:Wales (1885). He was the author of an exceedingly useful little See also:book on See also:Mineralogy (1894; 12th ed., moo); also of The Study of Rocks (1879; 2nd ed., 1881), Rock forming Minerals (1888), and Granites and Greenstones (1894) ; and of a number of petrographical papers, dealing with perlitic and spherulitic structures, with the rocks of the See also:Malvern Hills, &c. In 1882 he was appointed lecturer on Mineralogy in the Royal See also:College of See also:Science, and held this See also:post until See also:ill-See also:health compelled him to retire in 1898. He died in See also:London on the 16th of May 1904. Obituary (by H. B. See also:Woodward), with bibliography, in Geol. Mug.

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