Samuel Joseph Mackie

British geologist
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IntroBritish geologist
A.K.A.S. J. Mackie
A.K.A.S. J. Mackie
PlacesUnited Kingdom Great Britain
wasGeologist
Work fieldScience
Gender
Male
Birth1821
Death1902 (aged 81 years)
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Biography

Samuel Joseph Mackie FGS, FSA (21 January 1823 – 31 May 1902), was a British geologist, inventor, and editor. He was a founding member of the Geologists' Association and the Anthropological Society of London, and sole editor of The Geologist: a Popular Monthly Magazine of Geology, a precursor to the Geological Magazine. Born in Dover to Samuel and Eleanor Mackie, he married Maria Kemp on 4 December 1845, and after her death married Susan Arabella in October, 1853. He edited The Geologist from 1858 to 1864, at which point it was acquired by Lovell Reeve & Co. The next year he established the Geological and Natural History Repertory, which folded in 1869.

Books

  • A Handbook of Folkestone for Visitors (1856)
  • First Traces of Life on the Earth: Or, The Fossils of the Bottom-rocks (1860)
  • Art-studies From Nature (1874) with F. E. Hulme, J. Glaisher, and Robert Hunt
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