Murchison Collection (#2)

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The Late Sir Roderick Murchison, 1871

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Royal Institution, Sir Roderick Murchisons Lecture on the Distribution of Gold Ore

RODERICK MURCHISON (1792-1871). Sir Roderick Impey Murchison. Scottish geologist. Mezzotint, American, mid-19th century

RODERICK IMPEY MURCHISON. Sir Roderick Impey Murchison (1792-1871). British geologist. Caricature, 1870, by " Ape."

(1792-1871). Sir Roderick Impey Murchison. Scottish geologist. Line engraving, English, 1866
RODERICK MURCHISON (1792-1871). Sir Roderick Impey Murchison. Scottish geologist. Line engraving, English, 1866

Sandstone strata on the bank of the Murchison River, Kalbarri National Park, Western Australia, Australia

William Buckland (1784-1856) British geologist and clergyman, equipped to explore a glacier. From sketch by Thomas Sopwith

Roderick Impey Murchison 1792-1871) Scottish-born British geologist. Defined Silurian system, 1835, Permian system, c1845, and in co-operation with Adam Sedgwick (1785-1873), the Devonian system

John Macculloch (1773-1835) Scottish geologist, chemist and physician. President of the Royal Geological Society 1816-1817. From Life of Sir Roderick I. Murchison by Archibald Geikie (London, 1875)

Richard John Griffith (1784-1878) Anglo-Irish geologist and civil engineer. From Life of Sir Roderick I. Murchison by Archibald Geikie (London, 1875). Engraving

Henry Thomas de la Beche (1796-1855) British geologist. President of the Royal Geological Society 1847. From Life of Sir Roderick I. Murchison by Archibald Geikie (London, 1875). Engraving

John Phillips (1800-1874) British geologist, nephew of the geologist William Smith (1769-1839). From Life of Sir Roderick I. Murchison by Archibald Geikie (London, 1875). Engraving

Thomas Davidson (1817-1885) British palaeontologist. From Life of Sir Roderick I. Murchison by Archibald Geikie (London, 1875). Engraving

George Julius Poulett Scrope (1797-1876) British geologist and economist. In geology, he was particularly interested in volcanoes. From Life of Sir Roderick I

Andrew Crombie Ramsay (1814-1891) British geologist. Professor of geology at Univeristy College London 1847. President of the Royal Geological Society 1862-1864. From Life of Sir Roderick I

Edward Forbes (1815-1854) British geologist. Professor of botany, Kings College London. President of the Royal Geological Society 1853. From Life of Sir Roderick I

tone (1802-1879) English comic actor and playwright born at Hoxton, logy of Canada (1863). From Life of Sir Roderick I. Murchison by Archibald Geikie (London, 1875). Engraving

John Playfair (1748-1819) mathematician and geologist, born at Benvie, Argyll, Scotland. From Life of Sir Roderick I. Murchison by Archibald Geikie (London, 1875). Engraving

William Smith (1769-1839) English geologist founder of stratigraphical geology. His insight into geological strata was gained while he was working as a canal surveyor. From Life of Sir Roderick I

William Daniel Conybeare (1787-1857) British geologist. The first to describe the ichthyosaurus. From Life of Sir Roderick I. Murchison by Archibald Geikie (London, 1875). Engraving

Adam Sedgwick (1785-1873) British geologist who, in cooperation with Roderick Impey Murchison (1792-1871), defined the Devonian system. From Life of Sir Roderick I

Cleodora sp. holoplanktonic mollusc
Fossilised specimen of holoplantktonic molluscs originating from Pliocene rocks, near Turin, Italy

Cyrtopirifer verneuili (Murchison), Delabole butterfly brach
A Delabole butterfly brachiopod (Cyrtopirifer verneuili Murchison) specimen from the Upper Devonian, Delabole Quarry, nr Camelford, Cornwall

Sir Roderick Impey Murchison (1792-1871)
Portrait of Sir Roderick Impey Murchison, a geologist. Murchison was knighted in 1846, and appointed director-general of the British Geological Survey in 1855

Poem by Mary Anning (1799-1871)
Encomium Murchisonaum, a poem written c. 1840s by Mary Anning in honour of the geologist Sir Roderick Impey Murchison (1792-1871). Page 2 of 3

Poems by Mary Anning (1799-1871)
Encomium Murchisonaum, a poem written c. 1840 s. Page 3 of 3. The Complaint of a sunbeam against Dr Faraday, written in honour of the English physicist and chemist Michael Faraday (1791-1867)

UGANDA: MURCHISON FALLS. A view of Murchison Falls, where the waters of the Nile flow into Lake Albert in western Uganda. Wood engraving, English, 1866, after Edmund Morison Wimperis

RODERICK MURCHISON / n(1792-1871). Sir Roderick Impey Murchison. Scottish geologist
RODERICK MURCHISON /n(1792-1871). Sir Roderick Impey Murchison. Scottish geologist. Line engraving, English, 1866

Crocodile at Murchison Falls, Uganda, Africa Date: circa 1930s

Murchison Lectures
Sir Roderick Murchison lectures on geology (the distribution of gold ore) at the Royal Institution in London. Date: 1850

1865 British Association cartoon by Punch
1865 A caricature by Punch of the diverse alumni of the British Association annual meeting in Birmingham. They are shown satirically, performing in their acknowledged fields of expertise

1836 Organic remains early fossil cartoon
From " The Anniversary of the Literary Fun 1836" by Thomas Hood, published by Baily and Co, Cornhill. William Buckland

Royal Institution Lecture on Gold, London, 1850
Engraving showing a lecture given by Sir Roderick Murchison about the geographical distribution of gold ore, held at the Royal Institution, London, 1850

Murchison / Leighton Litho
SIR RODERICK IMPEY MURCHISON Scottish geologist

Murchison / Sepia Photo
SIR RODERICK IMPEY MURCHISON Scottish geologist

Murchison / Hennah Cdv
SIR RODERICK IMPEY MURCHISON Scottish geologist, with his dog

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