Our navigation bar is loading . . .

 


 

Jesus Christ Saves Ministries

Helping San Diego, California and beyond since 1997.  




 

JCSM's Top 1000 Christian Sites - Free Traffic Sharing Service!


Do you need volunteer, community service, work, military or court hours?

Click here and add this page to your favorites!

Return to the JCSM Study Center!

Encyclopedia Britannica



HAAST, SIR JOHANN FRANZ JULIUS VON (18241887)

This article appears in Volume V12, Page 782 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: GUI-HAN
HAAST, SIR JOHANN FRANZ JULIUS VON (18241887) , German and British geologist, was born at
Bonn
  on the 1st of May 1824. He received his early education partly in that town and partly in Cologne, and then entered the university at
Bonn
 , where he made a
special
  study of geology and
mineralogy
 . In 1858 he started for New Zealand to report on the suitability of the colony for German emigrants. He then became acquainted with Dr von
Hochstetter
 , and rendered assistance to him in the preliminary
geological
  survey which von
Hochstetter
  had under-taken. Afterwards Dr
Haast
  accepted offers from the governments of Nelson and
Canterbury
  to investigate the geology of those districts, and the results of his detailed labours greatly enriched our knowledge with regard to the rocky structure, the glacial phenomena and the economic products. He discovered gold and coal in Nelson, and he carried on important researches with reference to the occurrence of Dinornis and other
extinct
  wingless birds (Moas). His Geology of the Provinces of
Canterbury
  and Westland, N.Z., was published in 1879. He was the founder of the Canterbury museum at Christchurch, of which he became director, and which he endeavoured to render the finest collection in the southern hemisphere. He was surveyor-general of Canterbury from 1861 to 1871, and professor of geology at Canterbury College. He was elected F.R.S. in 1867; and he was knighted for his services at the time of the colonial exhibition in London in 1887. He died at
Wellington
 , N.Z., on the 15th of August 1887.


End of Article: HAAST, SIR JOHANN FRANZ JULIUS VON (18241887)


If you wish, you can link directly to this article.
<a href="http://jcsm.org/StudyCenter/Encyclopedia/GUI_HAN/HAAST_SIR_JOHANN_FRANZ_JULIUS_.html">
HAAST, SIR JOHANN FRANZ JULIUS VON (18241887)
</a>
(Previous)
HAASE, FRIEDRICH GOTTLOB (18081867) 		(Next)
HABABS (Az-HIBBEHS)

 


 
 


JCSM was founded in 1997 and exists to help the community and bring people into a life-changing and productive relationship with Jesus Christ. JCSM offers over 200,000 free web pages, including its weekly inspirational emails that were sent continuously for over a decade.

Jesus Christ Saves Ministries
P.O. Box 9297
San Diego, CA  92169
1-888-887-0417 or Email

JCSM is a 501(c)(3), non-profit organization. Copyright © 1997-2012.
 

 

Sponsored Advertisements

Online First Aid and CPR Certification  .  DHA Solutions  .  PB Happy Hour Specials  .  Improvising Made Easy For Guitar and Bass  .  The Skeptic's Annotated Bible: Corrected and Explained  .  Home Equity Loans  .  First Aid and CPR Online  .  San Diego Music Lessons  .  10,000 Wise Quotes and Spiritual Sayings  .  Blow Up Your Site (For Free!)  .  San Diego DUI Lawyers  .  Jason Gastrich  .  Jordan Faith Gastrich  .  Divorce Secrets Revealed  .  Post Your Ad Link Free  .  San Diego Soccer Training  .  JCSM  .  Download Sermons  .  Custom Religious Banners, Build A Sign  .  Christian Singles Dating  .  Christian T-Shirts  .  Healing Christian Prayer  .  Bumper Authority  .  Personalized Blogs and Email  .  San Diego Haircuts  .  The Do the Math Diet  .  Stop Twitter Spam  .  Christian Conservative Work at Home Network  .  The Website of the Lord