The travels of Joseph Beete Jukes, F. R. S
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20314959 |
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| Authors | R A Bayliss (0000-0003-1994-1276, Robert Gordon's College, corresponding author) |
| Editors | Reginald Victor Jones (Senior Lecturer, Robert Gordon’s Institute of Technology, Aberdeen), William Drummond MacDonald Paton (Senior Lecturer, Robert Gordon’s Institute of Technology, Aberdeen) |
| Year | 1978 |
| Volume | 32 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 201-212 |
| Publication date | 1978-03-31 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Notes and Records the Royal Society Journal of the History of Science (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0035-9149 • E-ISSN: 1743-0178 |
| Publisher | The Royal Society (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1098/rsnr.1978.0016 |
| OpenAlex | W2018988892 |
| Language | EN |
An interesting, but comparatively little-known scientific traveller of the JOA . nineteenth century was J. B. Jukes, the geologist. He was born at Summerhill, Birmingham, on io October 1811, and attended school in Wolverhampton and Birmingham. The invaluable book of letters and biographical information written by his sister, Amelia Browne (i), records that he became interested in an aunt’s collection of fossils, and bought an account of Cook’s voyages. His widowed mother had thoughts of a career for him in the Church, but Jukes’s leisurely studies at St John’s College, Cambridge, had other results
Archaeology · Art history · Aunt · Genealogy · Geologist · Sister · Sociology · Anthropology · Classics · History · History of Science and Natural History
| Highly cited | No |
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