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ATHERSTONE, WILLIAM GUYBON (1813-1898)

This article appears in Volume V02, Page 845 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: ARN-AUD
ATHERSTONE, WILLIAM GUYBON (1813-1898) , British geologist, one of the pioneers in
South
 
African
  geology, was born in 1813, in the
district
  of Uitenhage, Cape Colony. Having qualified as M.D. he settled in early life as a medical practitioner at Grahamstown, subsequently becoming F.R.C.S. In 1839 his
interest
  was aroused in geology, and from that date he " devoted the leisure of a
long
  and successful medical practice " to the pursuit of geological science. In 1857 he published an account of the rocks and fossils of Uitenhage (the latter described more fully by R. Tate, Quart. Journal Geol. Soc., 1867). He also obtained many fossil reptilia from the
Karroo
  beds, and presented specimens to the British Museum. These were described by Sir Richard Owen. Atherstone's identification in 1867 as a diamond of a crystal found at De Kalk near the junction of the Riet and Vaal rivers, led indirectly to the
establishment
  of the
great
  diamond industry of
South
  Africa. He encouraged the workings at Jagersfontein, and he also called attention to the diamantiferous neck at Kimberley. He was one of the founders of the Geological Society of South Africa at Johannesburg in 1895; and for some years previously he was a member of the Cape
parliament
 . He died at Grahamstown, on the 26th of June 1898.
See the obituary by T. Rupert Jones, Natural Science, vol. xiv. (January 1899).


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