| Authorised form of name | Phillips; John (1800 - 1874) |
| Surname | Phillips |
| Forenames | John |
| Dates | 1800 - 1874 |
| Nationality | British |
| Dates and places | Birth:
Marden, Wiltshire, England (25 December 1800)
Death:
A staircase in All Souls' College, Oxford, Oxfordshire (24 April 1874) |
| Activity | Research Field:
Geology, palaeontology
Career:
Professor of Geology, King's College London (1834); Professor of Geology , Trinity College, Dublin (1844-1853); Curator of New Museum, Oxford (1957); Keeper of Ashmolean Museum, Oxford (1854-1870); Wollaston Medalist (Geological Society)
Memberships:
FGS (1828) |
| Royal Society activity | Membership:
Fellow
Election Date:
10/04/1834 |
| Sources | Sources:
Bulloch's Roll; DNB; DSB |
| Royal Society code | NA7560 |
| Reference number | Title | Date |
| MM/21/21 | Obituary of John Phillips in 'The Graphic' | 23 May 1874 |
| IM/003575 | Phillips, John | nd |
| MS/710/83 | Letter from John Phillips, York, to Robert Were Fox, Falmouth | 2 April 1836 |
| MM/21/19 | Letter from John Phillips | 22 November 1866 |
| MS/710/84 | Letter from John Phillips, Royal Hotel, Manchester, to Robert Were Fox | 2 November 1840 |
| MM/21/20 | Letter from John Phillips to the Sir Edward Sabine, President, Royal Society | 27 December 1867 |
| AP/38/17 | Notes on the Drawing of Copernicus by Secchi | 1856 |
| AP/45/10 | On the Telescopic appearance of the Planet Mars. | 1863 |
| IM/Maull/003574 | Phillips, John | 27 June 1860 |
| RR/2/158 | Referee's report by John Phillips, on a paper 'On the meteorology of the Lake District of Cumberland and Westmoreland, including the results of experiments on the fall of rain at various heights, up to 3166 feet above the sea-level.—Fourth paper, for the year 1850' by John Fletcher Miller | 17 April 1851 |
| RR/3/267 | Referee's report by John Phillips, on a paper 'On the structure and motion of glaciers' by John Tyndall and Thomas Henry Huxley | 16 March 1857 |
| RR/2/161 | Referee's report by John Phillips, on a paper 'On the meteorology of the English Lake District, including the results of observations on the fall of rain at various heights, up to 3166 feet above the sea-level' by John Fletcher Miller | 30 May 1852 |
| RR/3/269 | Referee's report by John Phillips, on a paper 'On some physical properties of ice' by John Tyndall | 19 March 1858 |
| RR/5/110 | Referee's report by John Phillips, on a paper 'On the joint-systems of Ireland and Cornwall, and their mechanical origin' by Samuel Haughton | 6 June 1864 |
| RR/4/269 | Referee's report by John Phillips, on a paper 'On the veined structure of glaciers; with observations upon white ice-seams, air-bubbles and dirt-bands, and remarks upon glacier theories' by John Tyndall | 10 May 1859 |
| RR/1/104 | Referee's report by John Phillips, on a paper 'An account of some observations made on the depth of rain which falls in the same localities at different altitudes in the hilly districts of Lancashire, Cheshire and Derbyshire' by S C Homersham | 17 June 1843 |
| RR/1/103 | Letter from John Phillips, on a paper 'An account of some observations made on the depth of rain which falls in the same localities at different altitudes in the hilly districts of Lancashire, Cheshire and Derbyshire' by S C Homersham | 19 June 1843 |
| RR/5/239 | Referee's report by John Phillips, on a paper 'Numerical elements of Indian meteorology' by Hermann De Schlagintweit | 29 June 1863 |
| RR/7/336 | Referee's report by John Phillips, on a paper 'On the comparative value of certain geological ages (or groups of formations) considered as items of geological time' by Andrew Crombie Ramsay | 26 March 1874 |
| RR/6/102 | Referee's report by John Phillips, on a paper 'Researches on solar physics. Heliographical positions and areas of sun-spots observed with the Kew photoheliograph during the years 1862 and 1863' by Warren De La Rue, Balfour Stewart and Benjamin Loewy | 17 August 1868 |
| RR/4/268 | Referee's report by John Phillips, on a paper 'On the physical phenomena of glaciers - Part I - Observations on the mer de glace' by John Tyndall | 28 October 1859 |
| MS/426/174 | Copy letter from C R [Charles Richard] Weld, the Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to John Phillips Eqs | 20 December 1845 |
| MS/426/177 | Copy letter from C R W [Charles Richard Weld], the Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to John Phillips Esq, York | 22 December 1845 |
| MS/426/565 | Copy letter from Edward Sabine, Treasurer of the Royal Society; to Padre Secchie | 14 April 1856 |
| EC/1834/21 | Phillips, John: certificate of election to the Royal Society | |