Randolph Kirkpatrick

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Cover of The Nummulosphere, 1912
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Cover of The Nummulosphere, 1912

Randolph Kirkpatrick (1863 – 1950) was a British naturalist and author of The Nummulosphere: an account of the Organic Origin of so-called Igneous Rocks and Abyssal Red Clays (1912), privately published, and printed by Lamley & Co. of South Kensington. His book proposed the theory that all rocks have been constructed by the accumulation of forams such as nummulites. He is chiefly known from an essay, "Crazy Old Randolph Kirkpatrick" by Stephen Jay Gould, published in Natural History, 87(3), and later collected in The Panda's Thumb: More Reflections in Natural History (Norton, 1980).

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