Alfred John Jukes-Browne

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

114 works are listed in the BGS Library catalogue

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