Nathaniel Wetherell

British geologist and surgeon

Nathaniel Thomas Wetherell MRCS FGS (September 6, 1800 – December 22, 1875) was a British geologist and surgeon. His work involved the collection of various fossils found in England.^[1] He was born, lived, and died in Highgate, England.^[2]

Wetherell discovered a strange mixture of rocks and fossils of northern provenance in Coldfall Wood, Muswell Hill in 1835. This led subsequently to the recognition that glaciation had affected southern England.^[3]

References

^ Woodward, Henry (January 1876). "Obituary. Nathaniel T. Wetherell, M.R.C.S., F.G.S." The Geological Magazine. New Series. Decade II. Volume III: 48.
^ Lee, Sidney, ed. (1899). "Wetherell, Nathaniel Thomas" . Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 60. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
^ Walker, H. (1874),The Glacial Drifts of Muswell Hill & Finchley, reprinted 1993, London: Jack Whitehead

Selected bibliography

Wetherell N.T., 1852, Note on a new species of Clionites (With a Plate.), Annals and Magazine of Natural History 1852. Vol. 10 Jul.-Dec. No. LIX. (No. 59. November 1852.) XXXIII. p. 354.
Wetherell N.T., 1859, On the Structure of some of the Siliceous Nodules of the Chalk, Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society 1859 vol 15 issue 1-2 p. 193.
Wetherell N.T., 1859, On the occurrence of Graphularia Wetherellii in Nodules from the London Clay and the Crag, Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society 1859 vol 15: p. 30-32.