Arthur Roope Hunt

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Arthur Roope Hunt (born January 8, 1843 in Porto , Portugal, † December 19, 1914 in Southwood, Torquay ) was a British geologist.

Life

His parents were the English wine merchants Artur Hunt and Mary Anne, nee. Roope. In 1852 the family returned to England because of the Portuguese Revolution. In 1870 he married Sarah Elizabeth Isabel Gumbleton (daughter of Richard Henry Gumbleton from Marston), with whom he had three children.

Around 1895 he was studying the geology of Devonshire . With his friend William Pengelly , he examined the caves in Kent . He examined the Scottish caves alone.

Publications

  • On certain affinities between the Devonian Rocks of South Devon and the Metamorphic Schists (with Alfred Harker )
  • Notes on Torbay ; 1878
  • On the Formation of Ripplemark ; 1882
  • Notices of memoirs ; Geological Magazine (Decade III) (1891), 8: 463-466 Cambridge University Press
  • Mr. AR Hunt on the Age of the Earth and the Sodium of the Sea ; Geological Magazine (Decade IV) (1901), 8: 186-187

literature

  • The Story and Origin of Hunt, Roope, & Company, London and Oporto and Newman & Company, Newfoundland, 1395-1951 ; London, 1950

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Palaeontologi: catalogus bio-bibliographicus; By Kálmán Lambrecht, Werner Quenstedt; P. 214
  2. ↑ George William Terry CARWITHEN / Louisa HOFFMAN ( Memento from July 23, 2012 in the web archive archive.today )
  3. ^ The History of the Collections Contained in the Natural History Departments ... By Adamant Medi
  4. ↑ Geological Magazine (Decade III)
  5. ↑ Geological Magazine (Decade IV)


personal data
SURNAME Hunt, Arthur Roope
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British geologist
DATE OF BIRTH January 8, 1843
PLACE OF BIRTH Porto , Portugal
DATE OF DEATH December 19, 1914
Place of death Southwood, Torquay