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== Biographies and obituaries ==
== Biographies and obituaries ==
Obituary - Alfred John Jukes-Browne, B.A., F.R.S., F.G.S. Born 16th April 1851, died 14th August 1914. Geologists Magazine. New Series. v. 1 p.431-432. 1914
Woodward, A.S. Obituary - Alfred John Jukes-Browne, born 1851, died 1914. [In Anniversary Address.]. Proceedings of the Geological Society in Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society. v. 71 p.lvi-lvii. 1915


== Publications ==
== Publications ==
=== Memoirs (Guppy list) ===
East Lincolnshire (1887); Lincolnshire (1885); Devizes (1905); Andover (1908).
Part author or contributor: Salisbury (1903)
Part author or contributor: North Lincolnshire and South Yorkshire (1890)
Part author or contributor: Lincoln(1888)
Part author or contributor: Borders of the Wash (1899)
Part author or contributor: Norfolk (1893)
Part author or contributor: Sidmouth (1911).
Part author or contributor: Chichester (1903)
Part author or contributor: Wellington and Chard (1906)
Part author or contributor: Henley-on-Thames (1908)
Part author or contributor: Cambridge (1881)
Part author or contributor: Parts of Cambridge and Suffolk (1891)


== BGS archives ==
== BGS archives ==

Revision as of 16:47, 14 August 2020

Alfred John Jukes-Browne. BGS Image no. P585006

Timeline

Date Details
1851 Born April at Penn Fields near Wolverhampton. Educated at Cholmondley School, Highgate, and St. John’s College, Cambridge (Tutor, T.G. Bonney). Nephew of J.B. Jukes, whose name he adopted on his 21st birthday.
1873 Hons. B.A. in Natural Science Tripos.
1874 Joined Geological Survey as Assistant Geologist.
1873-1883 Mapping in Suffolk, Cambridgeshire, Rutland and Lincolnshire. Contributed to Memoirs.
1883 Paper in Quarterly Journal Geological Society on river evolution.
1884 Began work for “Cretaceous rocks of Britain”, 3 volumes (published 1900-4).
1876-1877 Visited Egypt.
1885 Lyell Award.
1888-1889 Visited Barbados with J.B. Harrison, Government Chemist, he produced geological map and memoir and 2 papers (Quarterly Journal Geological Society).
1901 Murchison Medal.
Retired from Survey on account of ill-health.
Continued geological work and study of Recent Mollusca.
Text books: “Physical and Stratigraphical Geology” and “Building of the British Isles”.
1909 Elected F.R.S.
1914 Died August 16th.

Biographies and obituaries

Obituary - Alfred John Jukes-Browne, B.A., F.R.S., F.G.S. Born 16th April 1851, died 14th August 1914. Geologists Magazine. New Series. v. 1 p.431-432. 1914

Woodward, A.S. Obituary - Alfred John Jukes-Browne, born 1851, died 1914. [In Anniversary Address.]. Proceedings of the Geological Society in Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society. v. 71 p.lvi-lvii. 1915

Publications

Memoirs (Guppy list)

East Lincolnshire (1887); Lincolnshire (1885); Devizes (1905); Andover (1908).

Part author or contributor: Salisbury (1903)

Part author or contributor: North Lincolnshire and South Yorkshire (1890)

Part author or contributor: Lincoln(1888)

Part author or contributor: Borders of the Wash (1899)

Part author or contributor: Norfolk (1893)

Part author or contributor: Sidmouth (1911).

Part author or contributor: Chichester (1903)

Part author or contributor: Wellington and Chard (1906)

Part author or contributor: Henley-on-Thames (1908)

Part author or contributor: Cambridge (1881)

Part author or contributor: Parts of Cambridge and Suffolk (1891)


BGS archives

Ref No Title Description
GSM/GL/Bw/29/47 A J Jukes-Browne: Letters on fossils purchased.
GSM/GL/Bw/29/247,252,256 A J Jukes-Browne: Letters on sick leave.
GSM/GL/Cm/3 Correspondence: letters to Mr Brown, Jukes-Browne, Rudler (about Fullers Earth), W.Topley, W.W...
GSM/GL/Gr/57 Letters to Jukes-Browne and T Reeks
GSM/GL/Jb A J Jukes-Browne Joined the survey in 1874. Jukes-Browne was the nephew of J.B.Jukes, formerly Director of the...
GSM/GL/Jb/3 Correspondence with other geologists. Including: H.A.Allen, F.H.Hatch, F.L.Kitchin, G.W.Lamplugh...
GSM/GL/Jb/5 Copy of "Further Investigations Regarding the Submerged Terraces and River Valleys Bordering the... Jukes-Browne's copy containing notes by him. Inscribed by Hull.
GSM/GL/Wh/2 Correspondence with other geologists inc. J.Geikie, Jukes-Browne, Rudler and S.V.Wood