John Edward Marr

John Edward Marr (born June 14, 1857 in Poulton-le-Sands , † October 1, 1933 ) was a British geologist and paleontologist.

Life

Marr became interested in geology as a teenager after discovering a Cambrian fossil on vacation in Caernarfon in North Wales, which was named after him. At the Royal Lancaster Grammar School, his teacher RH Tiddeman took him on geological excursions. He studied from 1875 with a scholarship ( exhibitioner ) geology at St. John's College of Cambridge University , where he studied with Thomas George Bonney and Thomas McKenny Hughes , had his first publications as a student and graduated in 1878 with top marks. In 1881 he became a Fellow of St. John's College, and in 1882 he received the Sedgwick Prize for investigations into the fossil collection of Joachim Barrande from the Silurian region of Bohemia, corrected his stratigraphy and attributed the appearance of younger fossils in the older Silurian to faults in the rock, in contrast to Barrande's view, who advocated that the fossil species lived at the same time. From that time on he was also considered an authority on the Paleozoic . From 1886 he was a University Lecturer at Cambridge, and in 1917 he was the successor to Hughes Woodwardian Professor of Geology at Cambridge. In 1930 he retired.

Marr did extensive research in the Lake District , with first publications as early as 1878.

Charles Doolittle Walcott named a common Burgess shale fossil , Marrella splendens, after Marr.

In 1900 he received the Lyell Medal and in 1914 the Wollaston Medal . Since 1891 he was a member ( Fellow ) of the Royal Society , whose Royal Medal he received in 1930. From 1888 to 1898 he was secretary of the Geological Society of London and from 1904 to 1906 its president. In his honor, the Marr Glacier and the Marr Bluff in Antarctica are named.

Fonts

• Agricultural geology . Methuen, 1903.
• Cumberland . Cambridge University Press, 1929.
• Deposition of the sedimentary rocks . Cambridge University Press, 1929.
• The Geology of the Lake District and the scenery as influenced by geological structure . Cambridge University Press, 1916.
• The Palaeozoic and Neozoic Times in the Lake District and Neighborhood . In: Geology in the Field: the Jubilee Volume of the Geologists Association . 1910, p. 624-660 .
• Editor with AE Shipley: Handbook of the Natural History of Cambridgeshire , Cambridge University Press 1904
• An introduction to Geology . Cambridge University Press, 1905.
• North Lancashire . Cambridge University Press, 1912.
• The principles of stratigraphical geology . Cambridge University Press, 1898.
• The scientific study of scenery, 9th edition . Methuen, 1943.
• Westmoreland, Cambridge County Geographies, Cambridge University Press 1909

Web links

• Biography at Lancashire Pioneers
• Obituary at the Royal Society , doi : 10.1098 / rsbm.1934.0009

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Wooster Geologists' blog