SHARPE, DANIEL (18o6-1856)

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SHARPE, DANIEL (18o6-1856) , English geologist, was born in Marylebone, London, on the 6th of April 18o6. His

mother

MOTHER

was a

sister

SISTER

of Samuel Rogers, the poet. At the age of 16 he entered the counting-

house

HOUSE
HOUSE (O. Eng. hiss, a word common to Teutonic languages, cf. Dut. huis, Ger. Haus; in
Gothic
- GOTHIC
it is only found in gudhiss, a temple; it may be ultimately connected with the root of " hide," conceal)

of a Portuguese merchant in London. At the age of 25, after spending a year in Portugal, he joined his elder brother as a partner in a Portuguese mercantile business. As a geologist he first became known by his researches (18321840) on the

geological

GEOLOGICAL

structure of the neighbourhood of

Lisbon

LISBON (Lisboa)

. He studied the

Silurian

SILURIAN

rocks of the Lake

District

DISTRICT

and North Wales (18421844), and afterwards investigated the structure of the Alps (18541855). He was elected F.R.S. in 185o. He published several essays on cleavage (18471852), and showed from the evidence of distortion of organic remains that the direction of the pressure producing contortions in the rocks was perpendicular to the planes of cleavage. Most of his papers were published in the Quarterly Journal of the

Geological

GEOLOGICAL

Society, but one " On the Arrangement of the Foliation and Cleavage of the Rocks of the North of

Scotland

," was printed in the Phil. Trans. 1852. He was author also of a Monograph on the

Cephalopoda

CEPHALOPODA

of the Chalk, published by the Palaeontographical Society (18531857). In 1856 he was elected president of the Geological Society, but he died in London, from the effects of an accident, on the 31st of May that year.

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