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TATE, RALPH (1840-1901)

This article appears in Volume V26, Page 450 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: SUS-TAV
TATE, RALPH (1840-1901) , British geologist, was born at Alnwick in Northumberland in 184o. He was a nephew of George Tate (18o5-1871), naturalist and archaeologist, an active member of the Berwickshire Naturalists' Club. He was educated at the
Cheltenham
  Training College and at the Royal School of Mines, and in 1861 he was appointed teacher of natural science at the Philosophical Institution in Belfast. He there studied botany, and published his Flora Belfastinesis (1863); and he also investigated the Cretaceous and Liassic rocks of Antrim,
II
bnitging his results before the
Geological
  Society of London. In 1864 he was appointed assistant in the museum of that society. In 1867 he went on an exploring expedition to
Nicaragua
  and
Venezuela
 . In 1871 he was appointed to the mining school established by the
Cleveland
  ironmasters first at Darlington and then at Redcar. Here he made a
special
  study of the Lias and its fossils, in conjunction with the Rev. J. F. Blake, and the results were published in an important
work
 , The Yorkshire Lias (1876), in which the life-history of the strata was first worked out in detail. In 1875 Tate was appointed professor of natural science in the university of Adelaide,
South
  Australia. He now gave especial attention to the
recent
  and tertiary mollusca of Australia. He was the
chief
  founder of the Royal Society of
South
  Australia, and was in 1893 president of the Australian Association for the Advancement of Science. He died at Adelaide on the 20th of September 1901.


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