Author:Adam Sedgwick (1785-1873)

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Adam Sedgwick (1785–1873)

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one of the founders of modern geology; proposed the Devonian period of the geological timescale, and later the Cambrian period; guided the young Charles Darwin in his early study of geology, though was an outspoken opponent of Darwin's theory of evolution by means of natural selection

Adam Sedgwick

Works

• On the origin of alluvial and diluvial formations, 1825 (external scan)
• Discourse on the Studies of the University of Cambridge (1833) (short work) (external scan)
• A syllabus of a course of lectures on geology, 1837 (external scan)
• A complete guide to the lakes, With others, 1842 (external scan)
• A synopsis of the classification of the British palaeozoic rocks, 1855 (external scans (multiple parts): 1, 2)

Works about Sedgwick

• The life and letters of the Reverend Adam Sedgwick by John Willis Clark, 1833-1910 and Thomas McKenny Hughes, 1832-1917 (1890) (external scans (multiple parts): 1, 2)
• "Obituary: Adam Sedgwick" in Popular Science Monthly, 2 (April 1873)
• "Sedgwick, Adam," in Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715-1886, by Joseph Foster, London: Parker and Co. (1888–1892) in 4 vols.
• "Sedgwick, Adam," in Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, London: Smith, Elder, & Co. (1885-1900) in 63 vols.
• "Sedgwick, Adam," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)