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Samuel Joseph Mackie

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Samuel Joseph Mackie FGS, FSA (21 January 1823 – 31 May 1902), was a British geologist, inventor, and editor. He was a founding member of the Geologists' Association and the Anthropological Society of London, and sole editor of The Geologist: a Popular Monthly Magazine of Geology, a precursor to the Geological Magazine. He and his partners patented the Tonite (explosive). Born in Dover to Samuel and Eleanor Mackie, he married Maria Kemp on 4 December 1845, and after her death married Susan Arabella in October, 1853. He edited The Geologist from 1858 to 1864, at which point it was acquired by Lovell Reeve & Co. The next year he established the Geological and Natural History Repertory, which folded in 1869.[1]

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  1. ^ Freeman, Eric F. (1996). "The founders of the Geologists' Association II: the mysterious Mr Mackie". Proceedings of the Geologists' Association. 107 (2): 85–96. doi:10.1016/S0016-7878(96)80002-2.
  2. ^ "Review of First Traces of Life on the Earth; or, the Fossils of the Bottom Rocks by S. J. Mackie". The Athenaeum (1701): 760. 2 June 1860.
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