Valentine Ball
1843–95
Irish geologist. BA, Dublin, 1864. Worked for the Geological Survey of India, 1864–81. Professor of geology and mineralogy, Dublin, 1881–3. Director, Science and Art Museum, Dublin, 1883–95. FRS 1882.
Sources
R. Desmond 1994
Geological Magazine 2 (1895): 382–3
Sarjeant 1980–96
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