Roderick Impey Murchison

Sir Roderick Impey Murchison Bart., KCB, DCL, FRS, FRSE, FLS, PRGS, PBA, MRIA
Born	1792
Died	1871
Residence	16 Belgrave Sq [1862]
Occupation	aristocracy academic museum work geologist
Society Membership membership ESL Ordinary Fellow left 1871 deceased elected_ESL 1860.05.24 clubs Athenaeum Club societies Royal Society Royal Geographical Society Linnean Society of London Palaeontographical Society British Association Royal Irish Academy

Notes

Office Notes

ESL Council 1864-65 Member
ESL Council 1865-66 Member [?]
ESL Council 1866-67 Member [?]
ESL Council 1867-68 Member
ESL Council 1868-69 Member
ESL Council 1869-70 Member

House Notes

Director General of the Museum of Practical Geology, President of the Royal Geographical Society

contributes £21 to Eyre Defence and Aid Fund
1871.10.20 death noted

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.

Member of the Athenaeum Club from 1824

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

Publications

External Publications

Geology of Cheltenham (1834)
The Silurian System (1839)
On the Geological Structure of the Northern and Central Regions of Russia in Europe (1841)
Geology of Russia in Europe and the Ural Mountains (1845)