| Authorised form of name | Phillips; John Arthur (1822 - 1887) |
| Dates | 1822 - 1887 |
| Nationality | British |
| Place of birth | Polgooth, near St Austell, Cornwall, England |
| Date of birth | 18 February 1822 |
| Place of death | 18 Fopstone Road, London |
| Date of death | 04 January 1887 |
| Occupation | Civil engineer; Metallurgist |
| Research field | Metallurgy |
| Activity | Education:
Ecole des Mines, Paris (graduated 1846)
Career:
Apprenticed to a surveyor, but left to study metallurgy; returned to England (1848); worked as a metallurgist, London; Professor of Metallurgy, College for Civil Engineers, Putney (1848-1850); spent a year in California (1853); built and managed a metal works, Widnes; studied the microscopic structure of minerals and rocks
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| Membership category | Fellow |
| Date of election | 02/06/1881 |
| Relationships | Son of John Phillips and his wife Prudence Gaved of Tregian, St Ewe; married (1850) Mary Ann, daughter of George Andrews of Carne, Cornwall |
| Source | Sources:
Bulloch's Roll; DNB
Obituaries:
Proc Roy Soc 1887-1888 vol 43 pp iii-iv signed by W W S |
| Virtual International Authority File | http://viaf.org/viaf/49606311 |
| Code | NA4990 |
| RefNo | Title | Date |
| RR/9/4 | Referee's report by John Arthur Phillips, on a paper 'On a collection of rock specimens from the Island of Socotra' by Thomas George Bonney | 31 July 1882 |
| AP/55/14/3 | Unpublished map, 'Portion of the geological map of Cornwall including the mines in which the principal saline springs have been discovered' by John Arthur Phillips | 1873 |
| AP/55/14/2 | Unpublished diagrams, lode and fissure by John Arthur Phillips | 1873 |
| RR/6/249 | Referee's report by John Arthur Phillips, on a paper 'Description of the Great Melbourne telescope' by Thomas Romney Robinson and Thomas Grubb | 2 November 1868 |
| EC/1881/16 | Phillips, John Arthur: certificate of election to the Royal Society | |
| RR/6/231 | Letter from William Jory Henwood, to Mr White, regarding a paper 'Notes on the chemical geology of the gold-fields of California' by John Arthur Phillips | 8 April 1868 |
| AP/50/12 | Unpublished paper, 'Notes on the chemical geology of the gold fields of California' by J [John] Arthur Phillips | 1868 |
| MC/9/457 | Letter from J [John] Arthur Phillips, Cressington Park, Aigburth, to Walter White, [Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society] | 18 December 1872 |
| MC/9 | Volume 9 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society | 1870-June 1873 |
| AP/55/14 | Unpublished paper, 'On the composition and origin of the waters of a salt spring in Huel Seton Mine [Cornwall, England], with a chemical and microscopical examination of certain rocks in its vicinity' by J [John] Arthur Phillips | 1873 |
| RR/7/270 | Referee's report by Joseph Prestwich, on a paper 'On the composition and origin of the waters of a salt spring in Huel Seton Mine, with a chemical and microscopical examination of certain rocks in its vicinity' by John Arthur Phillips | 12 May 1873 |
| RR/7/269 | Referee's report by David Forbes, on a paper 'On the composition and origin of the waters of a salt spring in Huel Seton Mine, with a chemical and microscopical examination of certain rocks in its vicinity' by John Arthur Phillips | 7 March 1873 |
| AP/55/14/1 | Unpublished manuscript, 'On the composition and origin of the waters of a salt spring in Huel Seton Mine [Cornwall, England], with a chemical and microscopical examination of certain rocks in its vicinity' by J [John] Arthur Phillips | 1873 |
| RR/6/229 | Referee's report by William Huggins, on a paper 'Notices of some parts of the surface of the moon' by John Arthur Phillips | 18 March 1868 |
| RR/6/230 | Referee's report by Henry Clifton Sorby, on a paper 'Notes on the chemical geology of the gold-fields of California' by John Arthur Phillips | 3 April 1868 |
| RR/6/232 | Referee's report by Warington Wilkinson Smyth, on a paper 'Notes on the chemical geology of the gold-fields of California' by John Arthur Phillips | 18 April 1868 |