Nathaniel Wetherell

Nathaniel Thomas Wetherell MRCS FGS (September 6, 1800 – December 22, 1875) was a British geologist and surgeon. His work involved the collection of various fossils found in England.[1] He was born, lived, and died in Highgate, England.[2]

Wetherell discovered a strange mixture of rocks and fossils of northern provenance in Coldfall Wood, Muswell Hill in 1835. This led subsequently to the recognition that glaciation had affected southern England.[3]

  1. ^ Woodward, Henry (January 1876). "Obituary. Nathaniel T. Wetherell, M.R.C.S., F.G.S." The Geological Magazine. New Series. Decade II. Volume III: 48.
  2. ^ Lee, Sidney, ed. (1899). "Wetherell, Nathaniel Thomas" . Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 60. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
  3. ^ Walker, H. (1874),The Glacial Drifts of Muswell Hill & Finchley, reprinted 1993, London: Jack Whitehead