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Charles Giles Bridle Daubeny (
February 11,
1795 -
December 12,
1867) was an
English chemist,
botanist and
geologist.
Daubeny was born at Stratton near
Cirencester in
Gloucestershire, the son of the Rev.James Daubeny. He studied at
Magdalen College, Oxford under Dr
John Kidd. In 1819, in the course of a tour through France, he made the
volcanic district of
Auvergne a special study, and his
Letters on the Volcanos of Auvergne were published in
The Edinburgh Journal. He was elected a fellow of the
Royal Society in 1822.
By subsequent journeys in
Hungary,
Transylvania,
Italy,
Sicily,
France and
Germany he extended his knowledge of volcanic phenomena; and in 1826 the results of his observations were given in a work entitled
A Description of Active and Extinct Volcanos. In common with
Gay-Lussac and
Davy, he held subterraneous thermic disturbances to be probably due to the contact of water with metals of the alkalis and alkaline earths.
In November 1822 Daubeny succeeded Kidd as professor of chemistry at Oxford, and retained this post until 1855; and in 1834 he was appointed to the chair of botany, to which was subsequently attached that of rural economy. At the
Oxford botanical garden he conducted numerous experiments upon the effect of changes in soil, light and the composition of the atmosphere upon vegetation. In 1830 he published in the
Philosophical Transactions a paper on the iodine and bromine of mineral waters. In 1831 Daubeny represented the universities of England at the first meeting of the
British Association, which at his request held their next session at Oxford. In 1836 he communicated to the Association a report on the subject of mineral and thermal waters.
In 1837 he visited the
United States, and acquired there the materials for papers on the thermal springs and the geology of
North America, read in 1838 before the Ashmolean Society and the British Association. In 1856 he became president of the latter body at its meeting at
Cheltenham. The herbarium at Oxford is named after him.
Works
- Introduction to the Atomic Theory (1831)
- Lectures on Agriculture (1841)
- Lectures on Roman Husbandry (1857); in
Climate: an inquiry into the causes of its differences and into its influence on Vegetable Life (1863)
- Essay on the Trees and Shrubs of the Ancients, and a Catalogue of the Trees and Shrubs indigenous to Greece and Italy (1865)
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