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An Analytical Examination into the Character, Value, and Just Application of the Writings of the Christian Fathers During the Ante-Nicene Period being the Bampton Lectures for the Year MDCCCXXXIX. By W. D. Conybeare, M. A. of Christ Church, Vicar of
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in 1823, which Conybeare described to the Geological Society in 1824. Among his most important memoirs is that on the south-western coal district of England, written in conjunction with Dr Buckland, and published in 1824.
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Conybeare, "Inquiry How Far the Theory of M. Élie de Beaumont Concerning the Parallelism of the Lines of Elevation of the Same Geological Area, Is Agreeable to the Phaenomena as Exhibited in Great Britain,"
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and newer strata, was published. It affords evidence throughout of the extensive and accurate knowledge possessed by Conybeare; and it exercised a marked influence on the progress of geology in Britain.
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Outlines of the Geology of England and Wales, With an Introductory Compendium of the General Principles of That Science, and Comparative Views of the Structure of Foreign Countries. Part I
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including the fact that there had been at least three different species. His predictions about the plesiosaur were proved correct by the discovery of a nearly complete skeleton by
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and written in co-operation with that author. The original contributions of Conybeare formed the principal portion of this edition, of which only Part 1, dealing with the
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he pursued the subject with ardour. As soon as he had left college he made extended journeys in Britain and on the continent, and he became one of the early members of
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in a paper for the Geological that also contained an important description and analysis of all that had been learned to that point about the anatomy of
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An Analytical Examination into the Character, Value, and Just Application of the Writings of the Christian Fathers During the Ante Nicene Period
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near Bristol. During this period he was one of the founders of the Bristol Philosophical Institution (1822). He was rector of Sully in
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F.J. North,(1933) "Dean Conybeare, Geologist", Reports and Transactions of the Cardiff Naturalists' Society, Vol. 66, pp. 15–68
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acknowledged their indebtedness to him for instruction received when they first began to devote attention to geology.
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in Transactions of the Geological Society of London, 2nd ser., 1, pt. 1, (1822). 210–316. W. Buckland and Conybeare
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Illustration of plesiosaur skeletal anatomy from Conybeare's 1824 paper describing the skeleton found by Anning
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in Annals of Philosophy, n.s. 5 (1823), 1–16, 135–149, 210–218, 278–289, 356–359; n.s. 6 (1824), 214–219.
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Taylor, S. (ed.) (1999), From Cranmer to Davidson: A Church of England Miscellany. Boydell & Brewer
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in Report of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, 1831–2 (1833), pp. 365–414
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Conybeare, "Report on the Progress, Actual State and Ulterior Prospects of Geological Science,"
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in July 1857, who died, and his own death followed shortly thereafter on 12 August 1857, at
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This article is about the geologist Dean of Llandaff. For his son the priest and author, see
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in Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, 111 (1967), 272–287., M. J. S. Rudwick
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in Philosophical Magazine and Journal of Science, 1 (1832), 118–126; 4 (1834), 404–414.
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and a corresponding member of the Institute of France. In 1844, he was awarded the
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Diagram of the skeletal anatomy of an Ichthyosaur from an 1824 paper by Conybeare
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Creationism: Intellectual Origins, Cultural Context, and Theoretical Diversity
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in Proceedings of the Geological Society of London, 1, no. 12 (1829), 145–149.
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he distinguished himself by describing, from fragmentary remains, the saurian
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ibid., 359–362, 401–406; n.s. 9 (1831), 19–23, 111–117, 188–197, 258–270.
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in Transactions of the Geological Society of London, 5 (1821), 558–594
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This article incorporates text from a publication now in the
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and his tomb is marked by a cross on a slender memorial shaft.
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ibid., pt. 2 (1824), 381–389. Conybeare and H. T. De La Beche
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anatomy and the first published scientific description of a
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in Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal, 7 (1829), 142–152.
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Attracted to the study of geology by the lectures of
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De la Beche, Henry & Conybeare, William (1821).
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William Conybeare (author)
William Conybeare (Provost of Southwell)

Itchen Stoke
Wollaston medal
FRS
Llandaff
English
geologist
palaeontologist
clergyman
Geological Society of London
ichthyosaur
plesiosaur
John Conybeare
Bristol
St Botolph-without-Bishopsgate
London
Westminster School
Christ Church, Oxford
MA
curate
Wardington
Banbury
Brislington
Glamorganshire
Axminster
Bampton lecturer
deanery
Llandaff

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