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'''Roderick Impey Murchison'''
{{Infobox rai-fellow
| first_name = Roderick Impey
| elected_LAS =
| membership = ESL Ordinary Fellow
| left = 1871.10.20 Deaddeceased
| clubs = Athenaeum Club
| societies = Royal Society<br />Royal Geographical Society<br />Linnean Society of London<br />Palaeontographical Society<br />British Association<br />Royal Irish Academy
}}
== Notes ==
ESL Council 1864-65 Member <br />ESL Council 1865-66 Member [?]<br />ESL Council 1866-67 Member [?]<br />ESL Council 1867-68 Member<br />ESL Council 1868-69 Member <br />ESL Council 1869-70 Member
=== House Notes ===
Director General of the Museum of Practical Geology, President of the Royal Geographical Society<br /><br />contributes £21 to Eyre Defence and Aid Fund<br />1871.10.20 death noted<br />
=== Notes From Elsewhere ===
Sir Roderick Impey Murchison, 1st Baronet KCB DCL FRS FRSE FLS PRGS PBA MRIA (22 February 1792[1] – 22 October 1871) was a Scottish geologist who first described and investigated the Silurian system.<br /><br />Member of the Athenaeum Club from 1824<br /><br />Geologist, Fellow of the Royal Society and President of the Royal Geographical Society 1843–1845 and subsequently for most of the period in which Burton’s connections to the Society were strongest (1851–1853, 1856–1859, 1862–1871). See the reminiscence by Clements Markham for the uneasy relationship between Murchison and Burton<br />