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Samuel Joseph Mackie

1823–1902

Geologist, palaeontologist, journalist, and antiquary. Elected fellow of the Geological Society of London, 1851; of the Society of Antiquaries of London, 1853. Editor of the Geologist, 1858–64; of the Geological and Natural History Repertory, 1865–7. Published a catalogue of British fossil sponges in 1866. Author of works on the history and topography of Folkestone, Kent.

Sources

BLC

Census returns of England and Wales 1861 (The National Archives: Public Record Office RG9/90/59/32)

England & Wales, national probate calendar (index of wills and administrations), 1858–1966, 1973–95 (Ancestry.com, accessed 12 October 2018)

England, select births and christenings, 1538–1975 (Ancestry.com, accessed 12 October 2018)

Journal of the Geological Society of London 7 (1851): 257

Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of London 2 (1853): 314.

Bibliography

BLC: The British Library general catalogue of printed books to 1975. 360 vols. and supplement (6 vols.). London: Clive Bingley; K. G. Saur. 1979–88.

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