Thomas George Bonney

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Thomas George Bonney

Thomas George Bonney FRS (born July 27, 1833 in Rugeley , Staffordshire , † December 10, 1923 in Cambridge ) was a British geologist .

Life

Bonney was the eldest son of Reverend Thomas Bonney, principal of the Rugeley Grammar School . He went to Uppingham School and St John's College, Cambridge , where he graduated 12th in the series in 1856, and was accepted into its faculty the next year.

From 1856 to 1861 he held a master's degree in mathematics at Westminster School , and only did geology for recreation, especially in the Alps . In 1868 he was appointed tutor to St John's College, University of Cambridge and lecturer in geology. He dealt mainly with igneous and metamorphic rocks of the Alps and various parts of England, such as from the Lizard complex in Cornwall , of Salcombe in District South Hams and the Charnwood Forest ; from Wales and the Scottish Highlands .

Between 1877 and 1901 he was Professor of Geology at University College London . He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society on June 6, 1878 . He later held the position of secretary and finally president of the Geological Society (1884-1886), whose Wollaston Medal he received in 1889; he was also Secretary of the British Association (1881–1885) and President of the Mineralogical Society . Bonney was President of the Alpine Club from 1881 to 1883 and was made an Honorary Canon of Manchester in 1887 .

The Bonneysee ( Lake Bonney ) and the Bonney bar in East Antarctic Victoria Land and the Bonney Bowl , a mountain basin in East Antarctica Coatsland , are named after him.

Publications

The following are purely scientific publications:

  • Cambridgeshire Geology. 1875.
  • The story of our planet. 1893.
  • Charles Lyell and Modern Geology. 1895.
  • Ice Work, Past and Present. 1896.
  • Volcanoes. 1899.
  • The structure of the earth . TC & EC Jack, London, OCLC 18582859 ( archive.org ).

In addition to many articles in the Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society and in Geological Magazine , he wrote various popular scientific works, for example on the regions of the Alps, on English and Welsh landscapes and on theological topics. These publications include, for example:

  • Memories of a long life . Metcalfe, Cambridge 1921, OCLC 4338105 .
  • Annals of the Philosophical Club of the Royal Society . The MacMillan & Co., London 1919, OCLC 1829655 ( archive.org ).

See also

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bonney, Thomas George . In: John Archibald Venn (Ed.): Alumni Cantabrigienses . A Biographical List of All Known Students, Graduates and Holders of Office at the University of Cambridge, from the Earliest Times to 1900. Part 2: From 1752 to 1900 , Volume 1 : Abbey – Challis . Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1940, pp. 318 ( venn.lib.cam.ac.uk Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
  2. ^ Entry on Bonney; Thomas George (1833–1923) in the Archives of the Royal Society , London , The Royal Society: Lists of Royal Society Fellows 1660–2007: Fellows , July 2007, therein Fellow 06/06/1878.
personal data
SURNAME Bonney, Thomas George
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British geologist
DATE OF BIRTH July 27, 1833
PLACE OF BIRTH Rugeley , Staffordshire
DATE OF DEATH December 10, 1923
Place of death Cambridge