John Phillips
1800–74
Geologist. Keeper of the Yorkshire Museum, 1825–40. Assistant secretary, British Association for the Advancement of Science, 1832–62. Professor of geology, King’s College, London, 1834–9. Palaeontologist to the Geological Survey of Great Britain, 1841–4. Deputy reader in geology, Oxford University, 1853; professor, 1860–74. FRS 1834.
Sources
DSB
ODNB
Bibliography
DSB: Dictionary of scientific biography. Edited by Charles Coulston Gillispie and Frederic L. Holmes. 18 vols. including index and supplements. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons. 1970–90.
ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.
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