Alexander McHenry
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Date | Details |
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1843 | Born October 24th. |
1861 | Appointed Fossil Collector to Survey under J.B. Jukes in Ireland. |
1877 | Appointed Assistant Geologist. |
1878 | Charged with mapping the difficult districts in Mayo, including Achill Island, later Caledonian ridges of Donegal. |
1890 | Appointed Geologist. |
1908 | Retired. |
1919 | Died April 19th. |
Biographies and obituaries
Obituary - Alexander McHenry, M.R.I.A. Born 24th October 1943, died 19th April 1919. Geologists Magazine. New Series. v. 6 p.336. 1919
Lamplugh, G.W. Obituary - Alexander McHenry. [In Anniversary Address.]. Proceedings of the Geological Society in Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society. v. 76 p.lx-lxi. 1920
Publications
Contributed to Memoirs on Giant’s Causeway and North-west and Central Donegal. Also maps and Memoirs on districts round larger cities of Ireland, issued under G.W. Lamplugh, 1903 onwards. Reported on inter basaltic iron-ores and bauxite in Antrim for Memoir published 1912.
80 works listed in the BGS Library catalogue