Lucas Barrett, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Lucas Barrett

British scientist

Date of Birth: 14-Nov-1837

Place of Birth: London

Date of Death: 19-Dec-1862

Profession: naturalist, geologist

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio


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About Lucas Barrett

  • Lucas Barrett (14 November 1837 – 19 December 1862) was an English naturalist and geologist.Barrett was born in London and educated at University College School.
  • He went to Ebersdorf, near Lobenstein, Vogtland, Germany in 1853, studying botany and chemistry for a year.
  • In 1855, he accompanied Robert MacAndrew on a dredging excursion from the Shetland Islands to Norway and beyond the Arctic Circle; he subsequently made other cruises, to Greenland and to the coast of Spain.
  • These expeditions laid the foundations of an extensive knowledge of the distribution of marine life. James Scott Bowerbank named in 1858 a new species of deep-sea sponge after him: Geodia barretti.
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  • Barrett on the Norwegian coast. In 1855, he was engaged by Adam Sedgwick to assist in the Woodwardian Museum at Cambridge.
  • During the following three years, he aided the professor by delivering lectures.
  • He discovered bones of birds in the Cambridge Greensand, and he prepared a geological map of Cambridge on the one-inch Ordnance map.
  • In 1859, when he was twenty-two, he was appointed director of the Geological Survey of Jamaica.
  • There, he determined the Cretaceous age of certain rocks that contained Hippurites.
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  • P.
  • Woodward named the new genus Barrettia after him.
  • Barrett also collected many fossils from the Miocene and newer strata. He drowned, at the age of twenty-five, while investigating the sea-bottom off Kingston, Jamaica.
  • His posthumous son Arthur Barrett and grandson Lucas Barrett were electrical engineers and ran the firm of Baily, Grundy and Barrett in Cambridge.

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