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SALTER, JOHN WILLIAM (1820-1869)

This article appears in Volume V24, Page 92 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: SAC-SAR
SALTER, JOHN WILLIAM (1820-1869) ,
English
  naturalist and palaeontologist, was born on the 15th of December '82o. He was apprenticed in 1835 to James de Carle
Sowerby
 , and was engaged in drawing and engraving the plates for
Sowerby
 's
Mineral
  Conchology, the Supplement to his
English
  Botany, and, other Natural History works. In 1842 he was employed for a short time by Sedgwick in arranging the fossils in the Woodwardian Museum at
Cambridge
 , and he accompanied the professor on several
geological
  expeditions (1842-1845) into Wales. In 1846 he was appointed on the staff of the
Geological
  Survey and worked under
Edward
  Forbes until 1854; he was then appointed palaeontologist to the survey and gave his
chief
  attention to the palaeozoic fossils, spending much time in Wales and the border counties. He contributed the palaeontological portion to A. C. Ramsay's Memoir on the Geology of North Wales (1866), assisted Murchison in his
work
  on Siluria (1854 and later editions), and Sedgwick by preparing A Catalogue of the Collection of Cambrian and
Silurian
  Fossils contained in the Geological Museum of the University of
Cambridge
  (1873). Salter prepared several of the Decades of the Geological Survey and became the leading authority on
Trilobites
 , contributing to the Palaeontographical Society four parts of A Monograph of British
Trilobites
  (1864-1867), He resigned his post on the Geological Survey in 1863, and died on the 2nd of August 1869.


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