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Adam Sedgwick

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According to Wikipedia, Adam Sedgwick was a British geologist and Anglican priest, one of the founders of modern geology. He proposed the Cambrian and Devonian period of the geological timescale. Based on work which he did on Welsh rock strata, he proposed the Cambrian period in 1835, in a joint publication in which Roderick Murchison also proposed the Silurian period. Later in 1840, to resolve what later became known as the Great Devonian Controversy about rocks near the boundary between the Silurian and Carboniferous periods, he and Murchison proposed the Devonian period.

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The life and letters of the Reverend Adam Sedgwick (64)
Memoirs: On the Origin Metameric Segmentation and Some Other Morphological Question (63)
A synopsis of the classification of the British Palæozoic rocks / by the Rev. Adam Sedgwick ; With a systematic description of the British Palæozoic fossils in the Geological museum of the University of Cambridge, by Frederick McCoy. (57)
IV.—On the Structure and Relations of the Deposits contained between the Primary Rocks and the Oolitic Series in the North of Scotland. (46)
XLIII.—On the Physical Structure of Devonshire, and on the Subdivisions and Geological Relations of its older stratified Deposits, &c. (37)
III.—On the Geological Relations and internal Structure of the Magnesian Limestone, and the lower Portions of the New Red Sandstone Series in their Range through Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire, Yorkshire, and Durham, to the Southern Extremity of Northumberland. (29)
XXV.—Remarks on the Structure of large Mineral Masses, and especially on the Chemical Changes produced in the Aggregation of Stratified Rocks during different Periods after their Deposition. (28)
A Student's Text-book of Zoology (22)
XVIII.—A Sketch of the Structure of the Eastern Alps; with Sections through the Newer Formations on the Northern Flanks of the Chain, and through the Tertiary Deposits of Styria, &c. &c. (20)
V. The development of Peripatus capensis (20)
On the Classification of the Fossiliferous Slates of Cumberland, Westmoreland and Lancashire (being a Supplement to a paper read to the Society, March 12, 1845) (1846) (19)
Memoirs: On the Existence of a Head-Kidney in the Embryo Chick, and on Certain Points in the Development of the Müllerian Duct (18)
VI.—On the new Red Sandstone Series in the Basin of the Eden, and north-western Coasts of Cumberland and Lancashire. (17)
On the Older Palæozoic (Protozoic) Rocks of North Wales (1845) (16)
On the comparative Classification of the Fossiliferous Strata of North Wales, with the corresponding deposits of Cumberland, Westmoreland, and Lancashire (1845) (15)
Memoirs: On the Early Development of the Anterior Part of the Wolffian Duct and Body in the Chick, together with some Remarks on the Excretory System of the Vertebrata (1881) (13)
II.—Introduction to the general Structure of the Cumbrian Mountains; with a Description of the great Dislocations by which they have been separated from the neighbouring Carboniferous Chains. (13)
On the Classification of the Fossiliferous Slates of North Wales, Cumberland, Westmoreland and Lancashire (being a Supplement to a paper read to the Society, March 12, 1845) (1847) (11)
III.—Description of a Series of Longitudinal and Transverse Sections through a Portion of the Carboniferous Chain between Penigent and Kirkby Stephen. (10)
On the Lower Palæozoic Rocks at the Base of the Carboniferous Chain between Ravenstonedale and Ribblesdale (1852) (10)
XXIV.—On the Distribution and Classification of the older or Palæozoic Deposits of the North of Germany and Belgium, and their comparison with Formations of the same age in the British Isles. (8)
The works of Francis Maitland Balfour (7)
On the Slate Rocks of Devon and Cornwall (1852) (7)
A monograph of the development of peripatus capensis (5)
Elementary Text-Book of Zoology (5)
II.—On the Geological Relations of the Secondary Strata in the Isle of Arran. (5)
XXXVIII. Outline of the geological structure of North Wales (1844) (4)
A complete guide to the lakes : comprising minute directions for the tourist : with Mr. Wordsworth's Description of the scenery of the country, &c. and Four letters on the geology of the Lake District, by the Rev. Professor Sedgwick (4)
Memoirs: Develpoment of the Kidney in its relation to the Wolffian Body in the Chick (1880) (4)
X. On the existence of a rudimentary head-kidney in the embryo chick (3)
V. On certain points in the anatomy of chiton (3)
Notes and Memoranda: On the Development of the Structure known as the ‘Glomerulus of the Head-Kidney’ in the Chick (1880) (2)
Elementary textbook of zoology (2)
Geology of the Lake district of Cumberland, Westmorland & Lancashire in letters addressed to W. Wordsworth (1)
Peripatus . Myriapods . Insects (1)
A student's text-book of zoology, by Adam Sedgwick ... (1)
Peripatus papuensis (1)
The works of Francis Maitland Balfour edited by M. Foster and Adam Sedgwick. (1)
I. On the fertilised ovum and formation of the layers of the South African peripatus (1)
III. Note on a discovery, as yet unpublished, by the late Professor F. M. Balfour, concerning the existence of a blastopore, and on the origin of the mesoblast in the embryo of Peripatus Capensis (1)
"Provincial Dialects of the North of England" Appendix VI. "Further Remarks upon the Dialects of the Northern Dales." Appendix VII. (0)
Papers read to the Society, November 18, 1901 (0)
The Natural History Museum (0)
The elements of embryology / by M. Foster and the late Francis M. Balfour. (0)
Eminent Living Geologists (1870) (0)
On the separation of the Caradoc Sandstone into two distinct groups, the “May Hill” and the “Caradoc.” (1853) (0)
XL. On the may hill sandstone, and the palæozoic system of England: To the editors of the Philosophical Magazine and Journal (1854) (0)
Elementary text-book of zoology. By Dr. C. Claus, tr. and ed. by Adam Sedgwick with the assistance of F. G. Heathcote. (0)
The Natural History Museum (0)
XXXIV. On the Phænomena connected with some trap dykes in Yorkshire and Durham (1826) (0)
Four letters to the editors of the Leeds Mercury in reply to R.M. Beverley, Esq. (0)
VARIATION AND SOME PHENOMENA CONNECTED WITH REPRODUCTION AND SEX. (0)
Elementary text-book of zoology, tr. and ed. by Adam Sedgwick, with the assistance of F. G. Heathcote. (0)

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