THE 



GEOLOGICAL MAGAZINE. 



NEW SERIES. DECADE V. VOL. VI. 



No. I.— JANUARY, 1909. 



OI^IGrinsr^^IL. ^^I?,TICI-iES. 



I. — Eminent Living Geologists. 



Jetheo Justinian Hakkis Teall, M.A., D.Sc, F.R.S., F.G.S., 



Director of the Geological Survey of Great Britain and of the Museum of Practical 



Geolog-y. 



(WITH A PORTRAIT, PLATE I.) 



MR. TEALL, who was born on January 5, 1849, in the Oolitic 

 region of the Cotteswokls, at Northleach, a small market town 

 on the Fosse Way between Cirencester and Stow-on-the-Wold, was 

 the only child of Jethro and Mary Teall {nee Hathaway). His father 

 inherited some landed property in East Kent, and resided after his 

 marriage for about two months at Sandwich, where he died in 1848 

 of some epidemic that was raging in the place. Mrs. Teall then 

 returned to her relations at Northleach, where her son was born. 



His early education was received at the Northleach Grammar 

 School, and afterwards at Berkeley Villa School in Cheltenham. His 

 first instruction in science was given by a Mr. Notcutt, a pharma- 

 ceutical chemist living at Cheltenham, who gave lectures to the boys 

 on chemistry during the winter and on botany during the summer. 

 Among the pleasantest I'ecoUections of his school life are these 

 lectures, and the rambles he took over the Cotteswold Hills, where 

 the abundance of fossil shells in the rocks excited his wonder. Other- 

 wise much time at school was spent in trying to write Latin and 

 Greek verses, in which he never took the slightest interest. The 

 subject of mathematics was, however, well taught at the Cheltenham 

 School, and fully benefiting by this, Teall was sent to Cambridge to 

 take a Mathematical degree. With this object in view he began 

 residence at St. John's College in the Michaelmas Term of 1869, but 

 after a course of reading for the Mathematical Tripos he was led 

 to attend lectures on Geology by his College Tutor, Professor T. G. 

 Bonney, and was thereby so attracted that he devoted himself wholly 

 to the study of Natural Science. He was fortunate also in being able 

 to attend the last course of lectures given by the veteran Professor 

 of Geology, Sedgwick, as well as other courses given by Professor 

 John Morris, who acted as Deputy Professor until the appointment of 

 Professor McKenny Hughes in 1 873. A certain delicacy of constitution, 



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