Robert Etheridge

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Robert Etheridge

Robert Etheridge

palaeontologist
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Biography

Etheridge was born at Ross-on-Wye, in Herefordshire, the son of Thomas Etheridge and his wife Hannah Pardoe.[1] After an ordinary school education in his native town, he obtained employment in a business house in Bristol. There he devoted his spare time to natural history pursuits.[2]

At the Bristol Philosophical Institution for lectures, he encountered

Geological Survey.[2]

In 1865 he assisted

Rhaetic Beds, and of an important essay on the Physical Structure of North Devon, and on the Palaeontological Value of the Devonian Fossils (1867). He edited, and in the main rewrote, the second part of a new edition of John Phillips's Manual of Geology entitled Stratigraphical Geology and Palaeontology (1885). He was elected Fellow of the Royal Society in 1871, was awarded the Murchison Medal of the Geological Society of London in 1880 and was president of that Society in 1881-1882. In 1881 Etheridge was transferred from the Geological Survey to the geological department of the British Museum, where he served as assistant keeper until 1891. In 1896 he was the first recipient of the Bolitho Medal of the Royal Geological Society of Cornwall.[3]

He died in Chelsea, London, on 18 December 1903. He is buried in Brompton Cemetery.

His son Robert Etheridge, Junior was also a palaeontologist.

Spurious quotation

Etheridge is quoted in creationist literature as saying:

In all this great museum there is not a particle of evidence of transmutation of species. Nine-tenths of the talk of evolutionists is sheer nonsense, not founded on observation and wholly unsupported by fact. This museum is full of proofs of the utter falsity of their views.[4]

The content of the statement differs in creationist books and the quote is often misattributed to Etheridge's son

Robert Etheridge Jr. The origin of the quote is a letter from George Edward Post that appeared in the New York Evangelist for 10 September 1885.[5]

It is possible that Post may have misrepresented Etheridge's views. Etheridge never wrote about the transmutation of species in his publications.[6]

References

  1. ISBN 0-902-198-84-X
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  2. ^ a b Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Etheridge, Robert" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 9 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.
  3. ^
    doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/33028. (Subscription or UK public library membership
    required.)
  4. ISBN 0-520-08393-8
  5. ^ Branch, Glenn. (2014). "Dr. Etheridge, Fossilologist, Part 3". NCSE. Retrieved 14 September 2018.
  6. ^ Branch, Glenn. (2014). "Dr. Etheridge, Fossilologist, Part 4". NCSE. Retrieved 14 September 2018.

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