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James Mitchell Geology Museum: William King - Dept. of Earth & Ocean Sciences, NUI, Galway

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  William King D.Sc.

William King DSc was the first Professor of Geology in Galway. He had wide-ranging interests; his many publications include studies on fossil and living shell-fish, fossil plants and Neanderthal man. Most of his energy, however, was devoted to his life-long interest in the rocks and fossils of the Permian System. Through his research, teaching and collection of fossil material he played an important part in developing the structures on which much of the modern palaeontology is built.

'Geology treats of the (1) materials, intimate structure, order of position, and origin of rocks, comprising the crust of the globe (mineralogy, petrology & stratigraphy), - (2) of the physical changes which the surface of the Earth has undergone an d is now undergoing (physical geography), - (3) and of the various plants and animals which have tenanted the lands and waters of by-gone periods as well as the order of creation (palaeontology).'
Professor William King

Inscribed plaque on the south-facing wall of the James Mitchell Museum, University College Galway

 

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