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See also:WHITEAVES, See also:JOSEPH See also:FREDERICK (1835– ) , See also:British palaeontologist, was See also:born at 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, on the 26th of See also:December 1835. He was educated at private See also:schools, and afterwards worked under See also:John See also:Phillips at Oxford (1858–1861); he was led to study the Oolitic rocks, and added largely to our knowledge of the fossils of the See also:Great Oolite See also:series, See also:Cornbrash and See also:Corallian (See also:Rep. Brit. Assoc. 186o, and See also:Ann., Nat. Hist. 1861). In 1861 he visited See also:Canada and made acquaintance with the See also:geology of See also:Quebec and See also:Montreal, and in 1863 he was appointed See also:curator of the museum and secretary of the Natural See also:History Society of Montreal, posts which he occupied until 1875. He studied the See also:land and See also:freshwater See also:mollusca of See also:Lower Canada, and the marine invertebrata of the coasts; and also carried on researches among the older See also:Silurian (or Ordovician) fossils of the neighbourhood of Montreal. In 1875 he joined the palaeontological See also:branch of the See also:Geological Survey of Canada at Montreal; in the following See also:year he became palaeontologist, and in 1877 he was further appointed zoologist and assistant director of the survey. In 1881 the offices of the survey were removed to See also:Ottawa. His publications on See also:Canadian See also:zoology and palaeontology are numerous and important. Dr Whiteaves was one of the See also:original See also:fellows of the Royal Society of Canada, and contributed to its Transactions, as well as to the Canadian Naturalist and other See also:journals. He received the hon. degree of LL. D. in 1900 from McGill University, Montreal.
End of Article: WHITEAVES, JOSEPH FREDERICK (1835– )
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