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BRISTOW, HENRY WILLIAM (1817-2889)

This article appears in Volume V04, Page 583 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: BRI-BUN
BRISTOW, HENRY WILLIAM (1817-2889) ,
English
  geologist, son of
Major
 -General H. Bristow, who served in the Peninsular War, was
born
  on the 17th of May 1817. He was educated at King's College, London, under John Phillips, then
professor
  of
geology
 . In 1842 he was appointed assistant geologist on the
Geological
  Survey, and in that service he remained for
forty
 -six years, becoming director for
England
  and Wales in 1872, and retiring in 1888. He was elected F.R.S. in 1862. He died in London on the 14th of June 1889. His publications (see Geol. Mag., 1889, p. 384) include A Glossary of
Mineralogy
  (1861) and The
Geology
  of the Isle of
Wight
  (1862).


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