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Sedgwick (ADAM an English geologist born)

ADAM, an English geologist; born in Dent, Yorkshire, England, in 1785. He was educated at Sedberg and at Cambridge University and in SEDGWICK 1818 was appointed Woodwardian Proof Geology in the latter; this chair he held till within a short time of his death. His chief services to geology consisted in the determination of the geological relations of the palæozoic strata of Devon and Cornwall, and of those strata afterward called Permian in the N. E. and N. W. of England, in the explanation of the geological character of north Wales, and not less in the enlargement of the geological museum at Cambridge. considerable work of Professor Sedgwick's is a "Discourse on the Studies of the University of Cambridge," which had a wide circulation. He died in Trinity College, Cambridge, Jan. 27, 1873.