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NICOL, JAMES (1810-1879)

This article appears in Volume V19, Page 661 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: NEW-NUM
NICOL, JAMES (1810-1879) , Scottish geologist, was born at Traquair, near Innerleithen, in Peeblesshire, on the 12th of August 181o. His father, the Rev. James
Nicol
  (17691819), was minister of Traquair, and acquired some celebrity as a poet. Educated at Edinburgh University (1825), James
Nicol
  attended the lectures of Jameson, and thereby gained a keen
interest
  in geology and
mineralogy
 ; and he pursued their study in the universities of
Bonn
  and Berlin. After returning
home
  he worked zealously at the local geology and obtained prizes from the Highland Society for essays on the geology of Peebles-shire and Roxburghshire; he subsequently extended his re-searches over various parts of
Scotland
 , and in 1844 published his able Guide to the Geology of
Scotland
 . In 1847 he was appointed assistant secretary to the Geological Society of London, in 1849 professor of geology in Queen's College,
Cork
 , and in 1853 professor of natural history in the University of Aberdeen, a post which he retained until a few months before he died, on the 8th of April 1879. During these years he carried out important researches on the southern uplands of Scotland and on the structure of the Highlands. In the former region he gave the first clear account of the succession of the fossiliferous Lower Palaeozoic rocks (18481852); and when he came to deal with the still older Highland rocks he made out the position of the Torridon
sandstone
  and Durness limestone and their relations to the schists and gneisses. His matured views, although contested by Murchison, have subsequently been substantiated by Professor C.
Lapworth
  and others.
The more important of his papers were: " On the Structure of the North-Western Highlands " (Quart. Journ, Geol. Soc., 1861), and "On the Geological Structure of the Southern Grampians " (ib., 1863). He contributed the article"
Mineralogy
  " to the ninth edition of the Encyclopcedia Britannica. Among his other works were
Manual
  of Mineralogy (1849); Elements of Mineralogy (1858, 2nd ed., 1873); Geological Map of Scotland (1858) ; and Geology and Scenery of the North of Scotland (1866).


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