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I.—Eminent Living Geologists

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

Alfred Harker
Alfred Harker
Affiliation:
President of the Geological Society of London 1916–17, Fellow of St. John's College, and Lecturer in Petrology in the University of Cambridge.
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Dr. Alfred Harker was born at Hull, in Yorkshire, on February 19, 1859; his name may thus be appropriately added, as an “eminent geologist”, to the county which claims amongst its sons the name of Sedgwick, the Woodwardian Professor of Geology in the University of Cambridge (1818–73), the first who taught modern geology; and famous as having had such historians as William Smith (the “Father of English Geology”) and his nephew, Professor John Phillips; also as the birthplace of Sorby, Williamson, Strickland, Hudleston, and many others.

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Geological Magazine , Volume 4 , Issue 7 , July 1917 , pp. 289 - 294
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1917

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1 Written on May 10. Our dear friend Professor Hughes passed away on June 9; see Obituary Notice, p. 334.—Ed. Geol. Mag.