Charles Giles Bridle Daubeny (11 February 1795 – 12 December 1867) was an
EnglishEngland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west and the North Sea to the east, with the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...
chemistA chemist is a scientist trained in the science of chemistry. Chemists study the composition of matter and its properties such as density, acidity, size and shape. Chemists carefully describe the properties they study in terms of quantities, with detail on the level of molecules and their component...
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botanistBotany, plant science, phytology, or plant biology is a branch of biology and is the scientific study of plant life and development...
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geologistFor other uses, see Geologist .A geologist is a scientist who studies the solid and liquid matter that constitutes the Earth and terrestrial planets...
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Daubeny was born at Stratton near
CirencesterCirencester is a market town in Gloucestershire, England, 93 miles west northwest of London. Cirencester lies on the River Churn, a tributary of the River Thames, and is the largest town in Cotswold District. It is home of the Royal Agricultural College, the oldest agricultural college in the...
in
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, the son of the Rev. James Daubeny. He studied at
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under Dr. John Kidd. In 1819, in the course of a tour through France, he made the
volcanic3. Conduit
4. Base
5. Sill
6. Dike
7. Layers of ash emitted by the volcano
8. Flank| 9. Layers of lava emitted by the volcano
10. Throat
11. Parasitic cone
12. Lava flow
13. Vent
14. Crater
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district of
AuvergneAuvergne was a historic province in south central France. It was originally the feudal domain of the Counts of Auvergne...
a special study, and his
Letters on the Volcanos of Auvergne were published in
The Edinburgh Journal.
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Charles Giles Bridle Daubeny (11 February 1795 – 12 December 1867) was an
EnglishEngland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west and the North Sea to the east, with the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...
chemistA chemist is a scientist trained in the science of chemistry. Chemists study the composition of matter and its properties such as density, acidity, size and shape. Chemists carefully describe the properties they study in terms of quantities, with detail on the level of molecules and their component...
,
botanistBotany, plant science, phytology, or plant biology is a branch of biology and is the scientific study of plant life and development...
and
geologistFor other uses, see Geologist .A geologist is a scientist who studies the solid and liquid matter that constitutes the Earth and terrestrial planets...
.
Daubeny was born at Stratton near
CirencesterCirencester is a market town in Gloucestershire, England, 93 miles west northwest of London. Cirencester lies on the River Churn, a tributary of the River Thames, and is the largest town in Cotswold District. It is home of the Royal Agricultural College, the oldest agricultural college in the...
in
GloucestershireGloucestershire is a county in South West England. The county comprises part of the Cotswold Hills, part of the flat fertile valley of the River Severn, and the entire Forest of Dean....
, the son of the Rev. James Daubeny. He studied at
Magdalen College, OxfordMagdalen College is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in England. As of 2006 the college had an estimated financial endowment of £153 million....
under Dr. John Kidd. In 1819, in the course of a tour through France, he made the
volcanic3. Conduit
4. Base
5. Sill
6. Dike
7. Layers of ash emitted by the volcano
8. Flank| 9. Layers of lava emitted by the volcano
10. Throat
11. Parasitic cone
12. Lava flow
13. Vent
14. Crater
15...
district of
AuvergneAuvergne was a historic province in south central France. It was originally the feudal domain of the Counts of Auvergne...
a special study, and his
Letters on the Volcanos of Auvergne were published in
The Edinburgh Journal. He was elected a fellow of the
Royal SocietyThe Royal Society of London for the Improvement of Natural Knowledge, known simply as the Royal Society, or even the Royal, is a learned society for science that was founded in 1660 and is considered by most to be the oldest such society still in existence...
in 1822.
By subsequent journeys in
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he extended his knowledge of volcanic phenomena; and in 1826 the results of his observations were given in a work entitled
A Description of Active and Extinct Volcanos. In common with
Gay-LussacJoseph Louis Gay-Lussac was a French chemist and physicist. He is known mostly for two laws related to gases, and for his work on alcohol-water mixtures, which led to the degrees Gay-Lussac used to measure alcoholic beverages in many countries.- Biography :Gay-Lussac was born at...
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, he held subterraneous thermic disturbances to be probably due to the contact of water with metals of the alkalis and alkaline earths.
In November 1822 Daubeny succeeded Kidd as professor of chemistry at Oxford, and retained this post until 1855. In 1834 he was appointed to the chair of botany, to which was subsequently attached that of rural economy. At the Oxford botanical garden he conducted numerous experiments upon the effect of changes in soil, light and the composition of the atmosphere upon vegetation. In 1830 he published in the
Philosophical Transactions a paper on the iodine and bromine of mineral waters. In 1831 Daubeny represented the universities of England at the first meeting of the British Association, which at his request held their next session at Oxford. In 1836 he communicated to the Association a report on the subject of mineral and thermal waters.
In 1837 he visited the
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and acquired there the materials for papers on the thermal springs and the geology of
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, read in 1838 before the Ashmolean Society and the British Association (and published in 1839). In 1856 he became president of the latter body at its meeting at
CheltenhamCheltenham , or Cheltenham Spa, is a spa town and borough in Gloucestershire, England with a population of 110,013 at the 2001 census. The inhabitants are known as "Cheltonians". Its motto is: Salubritas et Eruditio ....
. The herbarium at Oxford is named after him.
Works
- Introduction to the Atomic Theory (1831)
- Sketch of the Geology of North America (1839)
- Lectures on Agriculture (1841)
- Lectures on Roman Husbandry (1857); in Climate: an inquiry into the causes of its differences and into its influence on Vegetable Life (1863)
- Essay on the Trees and Shrubs of the Ancients, and a Catalogue of the Trees and Shrubs indigenous to Greece and Italy (1865)