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[[File:P575755.jpg|thumb|Joseph Beete Jukes. From: Survey staff photographs. Geological Survey and Museum and Royal School of Mines, 1850-1910. IGS1.639. BGS Photograph number P575755.]] | |||
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1811 | Born October 10th at Summerhill, near Birmingham. Educated at Wolverhampton Grammar School and King Edward’s School, Birmingham, and St. Johns College, Cambridge. Studied under Sedgwick. Took B.A. 1836. |
1836 | Lectured ongeology in various towns in the Midlands and North of England. Undertook geological survey of Charnwood Forest. |
1839 | Appointed Geological Surveyor of Colony of Newfoundland. |
Results of work there recorded in memoir, with map. | |
1841 | Returned to England. |
Appointed by Admiralty to post of Naturalist on H.M. ship “Fly” for survey of coast of Australia and New Guinea. Studied coral reefs. | |
1846 | Joined Geological Survey and worked in North Wales with Ramsay, Aveline and Salter. |
Undertook survey of South Staffordshire Coalfield Memoir (1859). | |
1850 | Appointed by Murchison to post of Director of Geological Survey of Ireland (vacated by Oldham). |
Completed survey of half of Ireland and 42 memoirs. | |
1854 | Appointed to Lectureship of Geology in Royal College of Science, Dublin. |
1861 | “Student’s Manual of Geology”. |
Appointed on Royal Coal Commission. | |
1869 | Died August 1st. |
Biographies and obituaries
Publications
List of writings: See Appendix ""Letters of J.B. Jukes.