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Darwin Correspondence Project

William John Hamilton

1805–67

Geologist. MP for Newport, Isle of Wight, 1841–7. Secretary of the Geological Society of London, 1832–54; president, 1854 and 1865.

Source

ODNB

Bibliography

ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.

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