John Phillips
| John Phillips | |||||
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| Born | 1800 | ||||
| Died | 1874 | ||||
| Occupation | geologist | ||||
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House Notes
1852.02.04 A letter from John Phillips FRS Secretary to the British Association stating that such reports of the Association as can be spared will be presented to the Ethnological Society.
Notes From Elsewhere
John Phillips FRS (25 December 1800 – 24 April 1874) was an English geologist.[1] In 1841 he published the first global geologic time scale based on the correlation of fossils in rock strata, thereby helping to standardize terminology including the term Mesozoic, which he invented.
Member of the Athenaeum club from 1842
Publications
External Publications
Illustrations of the Geology of Yorkshire (in two parts, 1829 and 1836; 2nd ed. of pt. 1 in 1835; 3rd ed., edited by R. Etheridge, in 1875) Part 1 & Part 2;
A Treatise on Geology (1837–1839);
Memoirs of William Smith (1844);
The Rivers, Mountains and Sea-Coast of Yorkshire (1853);
Manual of Geology, Practical and Theoretical (1855);
Life on the Earth: its Origin and Succession (1860);
Vesuvius (1869);
Geology of Oxford and the Valley of the Thames (1871).
