Geologist Collection (page 3)

Roderick Impey Murchison, Scottish geologist, 1870. Artist: Carlo Pellegrini
Roderick Impey Murchison, Scottish geologist, 1870. Murchison (1792-1871) investigated old rocks beneath the red sandstone

Roderick Impey Murchison, Scottish-born British geologist, c1860. Murchison (1792-1871) investigated old rocks beneath the red sandstone

James Hutton, Scottish geologist, 1787 (1877). Hutton (1726-1797) working at a rock face with a geological hammer. In 1794 he published his Theory of the Earth

A Sawrian, 1836. Artist: John Scott
A Sawrian, 1836. Cartoon on Gideon Mantell (1790-1852) the English geologist who discovered a saurian, the Iguanodon, near Cuckfield, Sussex, in 1820

Ferdinand Fouque, French geologist and petrologist, 1904. Fouque (1828-1904) worked on the Geological Survey of France. He made a particular study of volcanoes and earthquakes

John Stevens Henslow, English botanist, geologist and clergyman, 1861. Henslow (1796-1861) was professor of mineralogy (1822-1827) and of botany (1827-1861) at Cambridge

Gideon Algernon Mantell, English geologist, 1852. In 1820 Mantell (1790-1852) discovered fossil parts of the Iguanodon and deduced from its teeth that it was a herbivore

George Douglas Campbell, 8th Duke of Argyll, Scottish Whig politician and scientist, c1880
George Douglas Campbell, 8th Duke of Argyll (1823-1900), Scottish Whig politician and scientist, c1880. Campbell was Secretary of State for India from 1868-1874

William Buckland, geologist, paleontologist and clergyman, equipped to explore a glacier, 1875
William Buckland, British geologist, paleontologist and clergyman, equipped to explore a glacier, 1875. Buckland tried to reconcile the then generally accepted (at least by the Christian Church)

Charles Lyell, Scottish-born British geologist, 19th century. In his highly influential Principles of Geology (1830-1833)

Charles Darwin, English naturalist. Darwin (1809-1882) as a young man. Darwin was employed as naturalist on HMS Beagle from 1831-1836

George Frederick Wright, American geologist and cleric, 1892. Engraving

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