Browse DSI

Details of the item << Previous   Next >>

   Murchison
   Roderick Impey
   R. I. M. ; Sir Rod. I. ;
   ->Charlotte Murchison (1788-1869)
   
   1792 in Tarradale House, Muir of Ord, Ross-shir
   1871
   
   Kenneth Murchison (1xxx-1796)
   
   Durham School ; military college at Great Marlow ;
   United Kingdom
   R. I. Murchison: The Silurian System (1839, 1 geological map entitled: The Silurian Region & Adjacent Counties of England & Wales, in 3 large sheets) ;
   Geological Survey of Great Britain (director 1855-1871) ; Geological Society of London (active member) ; Royal Societies of London & Edinburgh ;
   ->Charlotte Murchison (wife) ;
   geological drawing, engraving, map-making, hand-colouring ;
   www.birmingham.ac.uk/Images/College-LES-only/GEES/lapworth/map-murchison-1218x331510x138.jpg ;
   
   DNB ; DSB ; A. Geikie: Life of Sir R.I.M. (London 1875) ; Martin J. S. Rudwick: Great Devonian Controversy (Chicago 1985) ; J. C. Thackray: Geological controversies-Murchison–Sedgwick (in: J. Geol. Soc. 132, (4): 367-372) ; J. A. Secord: Controversy in Victorian Geology (Princeton 1986) ;
   A leading figure in British geology, 1818 settled in Barnard Castle, County Durham, England.
   46876809
   
   







Powered by: DaDaBIK, the Low-code Development Platform        

Done!