Daubeny, CHARLES GILES BRIDLE

Daubeny, CHARLES GILES BRIDLE, chemist and botanist, was born at Stratton in Gloucestershire, 11th February 1795. He devoted himself chiefly to the elucidation of natural phenomena by the aid of chemical science—his great work being A Description of Active and Extinct Volcanoes (1826). He also wrote on thermal springs. He became professor of Chemistry at Oxford in 1822, of Botany in 1834, and was an F.R.S. Other works are an Introduction to the Atomic Theory (1831), Lectures on Agriculture (1841), and Lectures on Climate (1862). Daubeny died December 13, 1867.