Jukes,

Jukes, JOSEPH BEETE, geologist, was born near Birmingham, on 10th October 1811, and graduated from St John's College, Cambridge, in 1836, having studied geology under Sedgwick. In 1839 he was appointed geological surveyor of Newfoundland, and in 1842 he took part as naturalist in the exploration and survey of Torres Strait, New Guinea, and the east coast of Australia. After his return home he surveyed part of North Wales for the Geological Survey of the United Kingdom (1846–50), and in 1850 became local director of the survey in Ireland. He also lectured on geology in the Museum of Irish Industry and at the Royal College of Science in Dublin. He died in that city, 29th July 1869. Besides writing many memoirs on geological and kindred subjects, Jukes published Excursions in and about Newfoundland (2 vols. 1842), Narrative of the Surveying Voyage of H.M.S. 'Fly,' in Torres Strait, &c. (1847), and A Sketch of the Physical Structure of Australia (1850); but he is best known as the author of the Student's Manual of Geology (1857, 5th ed. 1890). See his Letters, edited by C. A. Browne (1871).