Synopsis of the Classification of the British Palaeozoic Rocks - With a Systematic Description of British Palaeozoic Fossils in

List of contents

Introduction; Description of the British Palaeozoic fossils in the Geological Museum of the University of Cambridge; Plates.

Summary

During his fifty-year professorship at Cambridge, Adam Sedgwick (1785-1873) developed the geological museum to international status. He hired a young Irish scholar, Frederick McCoy (1821-99), to catalogue the collection, and oversaw this 1855 publication following McCoy's departure for Melbourne, where he in turn energetically promoted geological science.

Product details

• Authors: Frederick Mccoy, Adam Sedgwick, Adam Mccoy Sedgwick
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Release: 28.02.2017, delayed
• EAN: 9781108082785
• ISBN: 978-1-108-08278-5
• No. of pages: 856
• Series: Cambridge Library Collection -; Cambridge Library Collection - Earth Science
• Subject: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Palaeontology