Item 0010 - Letter, 2 August 1884

Alfred John Jukes-Browne was born on April 16, 1851, in Penn, Staffordshire, England.
He was a British paleontologist, stratigrapher, and geological surveyor. He was educated at Highgate School (1863–1868) and at St. John's College, Cambridge (B.A., 1874). In 1874, he became an assistant at the Geological Survey of Great Britain and was chiefly occupied in mapping parts of Suffolk, Cambridge, Rutland, and Lincoln up to 1883 and then entrusted with the preparation of a monograph on the British Upper Cretaceous rocks. He became a Fellow of the Geological Society in 1874 and won its Murchison medal in 1901. In 1909, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society. He contributed numerous papers to geological periodicals and wrote several books, e.g., “The Student's Handbook of Historical Geology" (1886) and "Building of the British Isles” (1911). He retired from the Geological Survey in 1902 on account of ill-health.
In 1881, he married Emma Jessie Smith (1858–1892). He died on August 14, 1914, in Newton Abbot, Devon, England.