Nathaniel Wetherell

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Dr. Nathaniel Thomas Wetherell MRCS FGS (September 6, 1800 - December 22, 1875) was a British geologist and surgeon. His work involved the collection of various fossils found in England. He was born, lived, and died in Highgate, England.^[1]

Wetherell discovered a strange mixture of rocks and fossils of northern provenance in Coldfall Wood, Muswell Hill in 1835. This led subsequently to the recognition that glaciation had affected southern England.^[2]

References

↑ Lee, Sidney, ed. (1899). "Wetherell, Nathaniel Thomas". Dictionary of National Biography 60. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
↑ Walker, H. (1874),The Glacial Drifts of Muswell Hill & Finchley, reprinted 1993, London: Jack Whitehead

Selected bibliography

Wetherell N.T., 1852, Note on a new species of Clionites (With a Plate.), Annals and Magazine of Natural History 1852. Vol. 10 Jul.-Dec. No. LIX. (No. 59. November 1852.) XXXIII. p. 354.
Wetherell N.T., 1859, On the Structure of some of the Siliceous Nodules of the Chalk, Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society 1859 vol 15 issue 1-2 p. 193.
Wetherell N.T., 1859, On the occurrence of Graphularia Wetherellii in Nodules from the London Clay and the Crag, Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society 1859 vol 15: p. 30-32.

External links

Darwin Project: Wetherell's correspondence with Charles Darwin

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Name	Wetherell, Nathaniel Thomas
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Short description	British geologist and surgeon
Date of birth	September 6, 1800
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Date of death	December 22, 1875
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