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HARKNESS, ROBERT (18161878) , English geologist, was born at Ormskirk, Lancashire, on the 28th of July 1816. He was educated at the high school, Dumfries, and afterwards (18331834) at the university of Edinburgh where he acquired an interest
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paper (read before the Manchester Geol. Soc. in 1843) being on The Climate of the Coal Epoch. In 1848 his family went to reside in Dumfries and there he commenced to work
Silurian
Scotland , and in 1849 he carried his investigations into Cumberland. In these regions during the next few years he added much to our knowledge of the strata and their fossils, especially graptolites, in papers read before the Geological Society of London. He wrote also on the New Red rocks of the north of England and Scotland . In 1853 he was appointed professor of geology in Queen's College, Cork, and in 1856 he was elected F.R.S. During this period he wrote some articles on the geology of parts of Ireland, and exercised much influence as a teacher, but he returned to England during his vacations and devoted himself assiduously to the geology of the Lake district
Harkness was required to lecture not only on geology, palaeontology, mineralogy
zoology and botany. The strain of the extra work
" Memoir," by J. G. Goodchild, in Trans. Cumberland Assoc. No. End of Article: HARKNESS, ROBERT (18161878) If you wish, you can link directly to this article.
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