Edward Vivian
1808–93
Banker in Torquay. Wrote on geology, meteorology, and human antiquity. Explored Kent’s cavern, near Torquay.
Sources
Modern English biography
Royal Society catalogue of scientific papers.
Bibliography
Modern English biography: Modern English biography, containing many thousand concise memoirs of persons who have died since the year 1850. By Frederick Boase. 3 vols. and supplement (3 vols.). Truro, Cornwall: the author. 1892–1921.
Royal Society catalogue of scientific papers: Catalogue of scientific papers (1800–1900). Compiled and published by the Royal Society of London. 19 vols. and index (3 vols.). London: Royal Society of London. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1867–1925.
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