| José Macpherson | |
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| Born | 15 July 1839  Cádiz |
| Died | 11 October 1902 (aged 63) Real Sitio de San Ildefonso |
| Occupation | Geologist |
José Macpherson y Hemas (1839–1902) was a Spanish amateur geologist, noted as pioneer in the introduction of modern techniques for the studies of rocks in Spain.
Born in 1839 in Cádiz in a family of traders, son to a Scottish father. He was the younger brother of Guillermo Macpherson [es], a diplomat, archaeologist and translator. Macpherson met Francisco Giner de los Ríos (the founder of the Institución Libre de Enseñanza, ILE) for the first time in 1875, collaborating with and eventually becoming a lecturer of the ILE (1882). He was also a member of the Sociedad Española de Historia Natural [es] and a founding member of the Sociedad Geográfica de Madrid [es].
Macpherson died on 11 October 1902 in La Granja.
References
- Citations
- Sequeiros & Martín Escorza 2001, p. 214.
- Sequeiros & Martín Escorza 2001, p. 214; Perejón 2009, p. 81
- Perejón 2009, p. 81.
- Perejón 2009, p. 87.
- Perejón 2009, pp. 87–88.
- Perejón 2009, pp. 84–85, 88–89.
- Perejón 2009, p. 93.
- Bibliography
- Perejón, Antonio (2009). "Don José Macpherson y Hemas (1839-1902), un científico y tres Instituciones: Sociedad Española de Historia Natural, Institución Libre de Enseñanza y Sociedad Geográfica de Madrid" (PDF). Boletín de la Real Sociedad Española de Historia Natural. Sección Geológica. 103 (1–4): 81–95. ISSN 0583-7510 – via Universidad Complutense de Madrid.
- Sequeiros, Leandro; Martín Escorza, Carlos (2001). "El geólogo andaluz José Macpherson (1839-1902) y sus aportaciones a la enseñanza y a la investigación de las Ciencias de la Tierra". Enseñanza de las ciencias de la tierra: Revista de la Asociación Española para la Enseñanza de las Ciencias de la Tierra. 9 (3): 214–221. ISSN 1132-9157.
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