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SHARPE, DANIEL (18o6-1856)

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SHARPE, See also:DANIEL (18o6-1856) , See also:English geologist, was See also:born in Marylebone, See also:London, on the 6th of See also:April 18o6. His See also:mother was a See also:sister of See also:Samuel See also:Rogers, the poet. At the See also:age of 16 he entered the counting-See also:house of a Portuguese See also:merchant in London. At the age of 25, after spending a See also:year in See also:Portugal, he joined his See also:elder See also:brother as a partner in a Portuguese See also:mercantile business. As a geologist he first became known by his researches (1832–1840) on the See also:geological structure of the neighbourhood of See also:Lisbon. He studied the See also:Silurian rocks of the See also:Lake See also:District and See also:North See also:Wales (1842–1844), and afterwards investigated the structure of the See also:Alps (1854–1855). He was elected F.R.S. in 185o. He published several essays on cleavage (1847–1852), and showed from the See also:evidence of distortion of organic remains that the direction of the pressure producing contortions in the rocks was perpendicular to the planes of cleavage. Most of his papers were published in the Quarterly See also:Journal of the Geological Society, but one " On the Arrangement of the Foliation and Cleavage of the Rocks of the North of See also:Scotland," was printed in the Phil. Trans. 1852. He was author also of a Monograph on the See also:Cephalopoda of the See also:Chalk, published by the Palaeontographical Society (1853–1857).

In 1856 he was elected See also:

president of the Geological Society, but he died in London, from the effects of an See also:accident, on the 31st of May that year.

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