Joshua Trimmer
Joshua Trimmer (11 July 1795 – 16 September 1857) was an English geologist born at North Cray in Kent. He was the son of Joshua Kirby Trimmer of Brentford, and grandson of Sarah Trimmer (1741–1810), author of the Story of the Robins (1786).
Life
At the age of nineteen he was sent to
He published memoirs on the Origin of the Soils which cover the Chalk of Kent; On the Geology of Norfolk, as Illustrating the Laws of the Distribution of Soils (1847); and Proposals for a Geological Survey, specially directed to Agricultural Objects (1850); in this respect he was a pioneer in agricultural geology. He was also the author of another useful work Practical Geology and Mineralogy (1841).[1]
Notes
- ^ a b Chisholm 1911.
References
- This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Trimmer, Joshua". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 27 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.
- Bonney, Thomas George (1899). . In Lee, Sidney (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 57. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
- "Trimmer, Joshua (1795–1857)". doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/27739. (Subscription or UK public library membershiprequired.)
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