William Thomas Blanford

William Thomas Blanford (October 7th 1832 - June 23rd 1905) is a geologist and British Naturaliste .

Blanford is born with London. He studies in private schools with Brighton and Paris then in order to adopt pursuits commercial he spends 2 years to Civitavecchia. Of return to the the United Kingdom in 1851 it enters to the royal school of the mines, that his/her young brother, Henry F. Blanford (1834-1893), who will take the head of the department of Indian meteorology, already joined. Then it spends 10 years to the school of the mines of Freiburg-in-Brisgau and towards the end of 1854 him and its brother obtain stations with the geological survey of India. There remain there 27 years until its retirement in 1882.

He works in various parts of India, in Raniganj, in the coal mines of Bombay and in those located close to Talchir there where erratic blocks, considered brought by ice, are discovered in the layers of Talchir. A discovery which will be confirmed not the observations of other geologists in other areas.

Its attention goes not only on the Géologie but also on the Zoologie, more especially on the terrestrial Mollusque S and the Vertébré S. In 1866 it is attached to the forwarding of Abyssinie accompanying the army with Mgdala. Of 1871 with 1872 it is engaged like Member of the frontier Commission of Perse. It uses all possible opportunities during these voyages to study the Natural history these countries.

For its contributions to Blanford geology off receives the Médaille Wollaston in 1883 of the Geological Society London and for its work in zoology and geology of India the Royal Médaille in 1901. He is elected member of the Royal Society in 1874 and chair of Geological Society in 1888. He dies in London.

List partial of the publications

  • Observations one the Geology and Zoology off Abyssinia
  • 1870: Observations on the geology and the zoology of Abyssinie
  • Manual off the Geology off India
  • 1879: with Henry Benedict Medlicott, Manual of geology of India .
  • 1889 - 1898: with Eugene William Oates (1845-1911), Fauna off British India (birds) (four volumes, Taylor & Francis, London).

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