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| 1837 births | |
| barrett, lucas | |
| 1862 deaths | |
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Barrett was born in London and educated at University College School and at Ebersdorf . In 1855 he accompanied R. McAndrew on a dredging excursion from the Shetlands to Norway and beyond the Arctic Circle ; and 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 . In 1855 he was engaged by Sedgwick to assist in the Woodwardian Museum at Cambridge , and during the following three years he aided the professor by delivering lectures. He discovered bones of Bird s in the Cambridge Greensand , and he also prepared a geological map of Cambridge on the one-inch Ordnance Map . In 1859 , when twenty-two years of age, he was appointed director of the Geological Survey Of Jamaica . He there determined the Cretaceous age of certain rocks which contained Hippurites , the new Genus Barrettia being named after him by S. P. Woodward ; he also obtained many fossils from the Miocene and newer Strata . He was drowned at the early age of twenty-five, while investigating the sea-bottom off Kingston, Jamaica . |
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