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Joseph Ellison Portlock was born at Gosport, United Kingdom on the 30th of September 1794. He was the only son of Nathaniel Portlock, and a captain in the Royal Navy.
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Papers On Geometrical Drawing: On The Arms In Use And Permanent Fortification, On The Attack And Defence Of Fortresses, On Military Mining And The Defence Of Coasts
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A Rudimentary Treatise on Geology: For the Use of Beginners (Classic Reprint)
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Report on the Geology of the County of Londonderry, and of parts of Tyrone and Fermanagh. With maps and plates.
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Title: Report on the Geology of the County of Londonderry, and of parts of Tyrone and Fermanagh. With maps and plates. Publisher: British Library, Historical Print Editions The British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest research libraries holding over 150 million items in all known languages and formats: books, journals, newspapers, sound recordings, patents, maps, stamps, prints and much more. Its collections include around 14 million books, along with substantial additional collections of manuscripts and historical items dating back as far as 300 BC. The GEOLOGY collection includes books from the British Library digitised by Microsoft. The works in this collection contain a number of maps, charts, and tables from the 16th to the 19th centuries documenting geological features of the natural world. Also contained are textbooks and early scientific studies that catalogue and chronicle the human stance toward water and land use. Readers will further enjoy early historical maps of rivers and shorelines demonstrating the artistry of journeymen, cartographers, and illustrators. ++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ British Library Portlock, Joseph Ellison.; 1843. 8º. 1254.h.25.
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Joseph Ellison Portlock
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Education
He was educated at the Royal Military Academy.
Career
He entered the Royal Engineers in 1813.
In 1814 he took part in the frontier operations in Canada. In 1824 he was selected by Colonel (afterwards Major-General) T. F. Colby (1784-1852) to take part in Ordnance Survey of Ireland. He was engaged for several years in the trigonometrical branch, and subsequently compiled information on the physical aspects, geology and economic products of Ireland. The work was then carried on by Portlock as the geological branch of the Ordnance Survey of Ireland, and the chief results were embodied in his Report on the Geology oj the County of Londonderry and of parts of Tyrone and Fermanagh (1843), an elaborate and well-illustrated volume in which he was assisted by Thomas Oldham.
After serving in Corfu and at Portsmouth he was, in 1849, appointed Commanding Royal Engineer at Cork, and from 1851-1856 he was Inspector of Studies at the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich. For a short time commanding officer at Dover, when the Council of Military Education was formed in 1857 he was selected as a member.
During these years of active service he contributed numerous geological papers to the scientific societies of Dublin and to the British Association. He published in 1848 a useful treatise on geology in Weale's "Rudimentary Series" (3rd. fed. , 1853).
He wrote a Memoir of the late Major- General Colby, with a Sketch of the Origin and Progress of the Trigonometrical Survey (reprinted in 1869 from Papers on Subjects connected with the Royal Engineers). He also contributed several articles on military subjects to the 8th edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica.
He died in Dublin on the 14th of February 1864.
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In 1837 he formed at Belfast a geological and statistical office, a museum for geological and zoological specimens, and a laboratory for the examination of soils.
He was president of the geological section of the British Association at Belfast (1852), and of the Geological Society of London (1856 - 1858).
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A Rudimentary Treatise on Geology: For the Use of Beginners (Classic Reprint)
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Report on the Geology of the County of Londonderry, and of parts of Tyrone and Fermanagh. With maps and plates.
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Papers On Geometrical Drawing: On The Arms In Use And Permanent Fortification, On The Attack And Defence Of Fortresses, On Military Mining And The Defence Of Coasts
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A Rudimentary Treatise on Geology: For the Use of Beginners (Classic Reprint)
Membership
He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1837.
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