Excursions in and about Newfoundland
Subtitle: during the years 1839 and 1840
By: by J.B. Jukes.
Publisher: John Murray
Published: 1842
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Subjects: Geology -- Newfoundland and Labrador; Newfoundland and Labrador -- Description and travel
Description: Joseph Beete Jukes (1811-1869) was a geologist who studied at Cambridge under the famous Adam Sedgwick (1785-1873) and eventually became a prominent member of the Geological Survey of Great Britain. In 1839, after many field expeditions in England, he was appointed to a survey of Newfoundland, a place about which he had until then been in 'utter ignorance'. The explorers failed to find the hoped-for mineral wealth they had been sent to prospect for, and returned to Britain. In 1841 Jukes joined the H.M.S. Fly as a naturalist for an upcoming expedition to chart the coasts of Australia and New Guinea. The Fly set sail for the Pacific in 1842, the year in which this two-volume account of Jukes' Newfoundland experiences was published. Volume 2 focuses mainly on Jukes' scientific observations, and includes descriptions of the island's natural history, geography and geology.
Notes: "General report of the geological survey of Newfoundland during the years 1839 and 1840": v. 2, p. [195]-210.
"Sketch of the geology of Newfoundland": v. 2, p. [245]-341.