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GESNER, ABRAHAM (1797-1864)

This article appears in Volume V11, Page 909 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: GEO-GNU
GESNER, ABRAHAM (1797-1864) , Canadian geologist, was born in Nova Scotia in 1797. He qualified as a
doctor
  of
medicine
  in London in 1827. Returning to the Dominion, he published in 1836 Remarks on the Geology and
Mineralogy
  of Nova Scotia, and continuing his researches he was enabled in 1843 to bring before the
Geological
  Society of London " A
Geological
  Map of Nova Scotia, with an accompanying Memoir " (Prot. Geol. Soc. iv. 186). In 1849 he issued a volume on the industrial resources of the country. He dealt also with the geology and
mineralogy
  of New Brunswick and Prince
Edward
 's
Island
 . Devoting himself to the economic side of geology in various parts of North America, he was enabled to bring out in 1861 A
Practical
  Treatise on Coal, Petroleum and other Distilled Oils. He died at
Halifax
 , N.S., on the 29th of April 1864.


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