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Encyclopedia Britannica



PHILLIPS

This article appears in Volume V21, Page 408 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

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PHILLIPS . WILLIAM (1775-1828), British mineralogist and geologist, son of James Phillips, printer and bookseller in London, was born on the loth of May 1775. He early became interested in
mineralogy
  and geology, and was one of the founders of the
Geological
  Society of London (1807). His Outlines of
Mineralogy
  and Geology (1815) and Elementary Introduction to the Knowledge of Mineralogy (1816) became standard textbooks. His digest of
English
  geology, A selection of Facts from the Best Authorities, arranged so as to form an Outline of the Geology of England and Wales (1818), formed the foundation of the larger
work
  undertaken by Phillips in conjunction with W. D. Conybeare, of which only the first
part
  was published, entitled Outlines of the Geology of England and Wales (1822). This volume made an era in geology. As a model of careful
original
  observation, of judicious compilation, of succinct description and of luminous arrangement it has been of the utmost service in the development of geology in Britain. In this
work
  Phillips reprinted his admirable description of the chalk cliffs of Dover and other parts of
East
  Kent, published in 1819 in Trans. Geol. Soc. vol. v. Phillips was a member of the Society of Friends. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1827. He died on the 2nd of April 1828.
His brother, RICHARD PHILLIPS (1778-1851), was distinguished as a chemist, and became F.R.S. in 1822. He was appointed chemist and curator to the Museum of Economic (afterwards
Practical
 ) Geology, then situated in Craig's
Court
  (1839). He was the author of papers published in the Annals of Philosophy and Philosophical Magazine. In 1996 the two
brothers
 , together with William Allen and Luke Howard, took
part
  in forming the Askesian Society.


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