Samuel Joseph Mackie
FGS,
FSA (21 January 1823 – 31 May 1902), was a British geologist, inventor, and editor. He was a founding member of the
Geologists' Association and the
Anthropological Society of London, and sole editor of ''The Geologist: a Popular Monthly Magazine of Geology'', a precursor to the ''
Geological Magazine''. Born in
Dover
Dover () is a town and major ferry port in Kent, South East England. It faces France across the Strait of Dover, the narrowest part of the English Channel at from Cap Gris Nez in France. It lies south-east of Canterbury and east of Maidstone ...
to Samuel and Eleanor Mackie, he married Maria Kemp on 4 December 1845, and after her death married Susan Arabella in October, 1853. He edited ''The Geologist'' from 1858 to 1864, at which point it was acquired by
Lovell Reeve & Co. The next year he established the ''Geological and Natural History Repertory'', which folded in 1869.
Books
* ''A Handbook of Folkestone for Visitors'' (1856)
2nd edition (1859)''First Traces of Life on the Earth: Or, The Fossils of the Bottom-rocks''(1860)
(1872) with
F. E. Hulme,
J. Glaisher, and
Robert Hunt
References
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1823 births
1902 deaths
People from Dover, Kent
19th-century British geologists
Amateur paleontologists
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