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John Kidd (
September 10,
1775 –
September 7,
1851) was an
English physician,
chemist and
geologist.
John Kidd was born in
Westminster, the son of a
naval officer. He was educated at
Christ Church, Oxford. He became reader in
chemistry at Oxford in 1801, and in
1803 was elected the first Aidrichian professor of chemistry. He then voluntarily gave courses of lectures on
mineralogy and
geology: these were delivered in the dark chambers under the
Ashmolean Museum, and there
William Conybeare,
William Buckland,
Charles Daubeny and others gained their first lessons in geology. Kidd was a popular and instructive lecturer, and through his efforts the
geological chair, first held by Buckland, was established. In 1818 he became a fellow of the
Royal College of Physicians; in 1822 regius professor of medicine in succession to Sir Christopher Pegge; and in
1834 he was appointed keeper of the
Radcliffe Library. He delivered the Harveian oration before the Royal College of Physicians in 1834.
Publications
- Outlines of Mineralogy (1809)
- A Geological Essay on the Imperfect Evidence in Support of a Theory of the Earth (1815)#
- The second Bridgewater Treatise: On the Adaptation of External Nature to the Physical Condition of Man (1833).
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