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Eminent Lining Geologists

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

John Phillips
John Phillips*
Affiliation:
Cambridge and Dublin, F.R.S., etc., Professor of Geology in the University of Oxford.
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Extract

John Phillips was born on the Christmas Day of 1800 (N. S.), at Marden, in Wiltshire. At this period the science of Geology, to which he has devoted himself so ardently, was itself struggling into active life. Men had talked of “Theories of the Earth,” and with much fancy had built it up of concentric rings, but there were scarcely any actual observers of those strata of which they discoursed so poetically.

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Original Articles
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Geological Magazine , Volume 7 , Issue 73 , July 1870 , pp. 301 - 306
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1870

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References

1 See notice of William Smith, “The father of English Geology,” in the Geological Magazine, 1869, Vol. VI., p. 356.