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Born July 31, 1858 • Dublin • Ireland
Died July 15, 1936 (aged 77) • Llandrindod Wells • Wales
Subjects Of Study Earth’s core
Murchison
Sir Roderick Impey Murchison
British geologist
John Milne
British scientist
Inge Lehmann
Danish seismologist
John Michell
British geologist and astronomer
Dutton, Clarence Edward
Clarence Edward Dutton
American geologist
Charles Darwin
Charles Darwin
British naturalist
Charles Lyell
Charles Lyell
Scottish geologist
Smith, William
William Smith
British geologist
Sir Harold Jeffreys
Sir Harold Jeffreys
British astronomer and geophysicist
Forbes, Edward
Edward Forbes
British naturalist
William Lonsdale
British geologist
Jean André Deluc
Swiss-British geologist and meteorologist
Beche, Sir Henry Thomas De La
Sir Henry Thomas De La Beche
British geologist
Henslow, lithograph by T.H. Maguire, 1851
John Stevens Henslow
British botanist
Charles William Peach
English naturalist and geologist
Sir Archibald Geikie
British geologist
Fuchs, Vivian Ernest
Vivian Fuchs
British explorer and geologist
Charles Lapworth
British geologist
Sir James Hall, 4th Baronet
British geologist
Mantell, detail of an engraving
Gideon Algernon Mantell
British paleontologist

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