Joseph Jukes

Joseph beds Jukes ( born October 10, 1811 in Summer Hill, Birmingham, † July 29, 1869 in Dublin ) was an English geologist.

His parents were John and Sophia Jukes. He attended schools in Wolverhampton to Birmingham and then studied geology under Professor Adam Sedgwick at St. John College, Cambridge. In 1836 he graduated and was Travelling Lecturer. From 1839 to 1840 he was with the geological exploration of Newfoundland charged ( on the HMS Fly, commanded by Francis Price Blackwood ) and was then director of the Irish Department of the Geological Survey of Great Britain. 1842-46 he was in Australia.

Works

  • Narrative of the surveying voyage of H.M.S. Fly, commander by Captain F. P. Blackwood, R.N. in Torres Strait, New Guinea, and other islands of the eastern archipelago, falling on the years 1842-46. T. & W. Boone, London 1847 Volume 2 Digitalisat
  • Joseph beds Jukes, Edward Forbes, Baron Lyon Playfair Playfair, Warington Wilkinson Smyth, John Percy, Robert Hunt: Lectures on gold for the instruction of emigrants about to proceed to Australia. David Bogue, London 1852 digitized
  • Geology of the South Staffordshire Coal -field; 1853
  • The student 's manual of geology. Adam and Charles Black, 1857 Edinbourgh digitized; New Edition 1862 digitized
  • The South Staffordshire coal -field. 2nd edition, Longman, Green, Longman and Roberts, London 1859 digitized
  • On the lower Palaeozoic rocks of the south -east of Ireland, and Their associated igneous rocks. M. H. Gill, Dublin 1859
  • The school manual of geology. Adam and Charles Black, 1863 Edinbourgh digitized
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