Salter, John William, 1820-1869

found: Morris, S.F. A review of British trilobites ... Salter's monograph, 1988.

found: Transactions of the Geological Society of London. Second series, volume VII, Part 4, 1856:page 203 (J. W. Salter, Esq., F.G.S.; contribution (coauthor): Description of Palæozoic fossils from South Africa)

found: CAVAL website, viewed January 31, 2025(John William Salter; 15 December 1820 - 2 December 1869; English naturalist, geologist, and palaeontologist; born in Pratt Place, Camden Town; apprenticed in 1835 to James De Carle Sowerby, and engaged to draw and engrave the plates for Sowerby's "Mineral Conchology and other natural history works; in 1842 he was employed for a short time by professor Adam Sedgwick in arranging the fossils in the Woodwardian Museum at Cambridge, and accompanied the professor on geological expeditions into Wales (1842-1845); appointed on the staff of the Geological Survey in 1846 and worked under Edward Forbes until 1854; succeeded Forbes as palaeontologist to the survey, focusing attention on Palaeozoic fossils, spending time in Wales and the border counties; in 1865 Salter collaborated with Henry Woodward to produce a Chart of Fossil Crustacea; became the leading authority on trilobites; he resigned his post on the Geological Survey in 1863; elected an associate of the Linnean Society in 1842, made a fellow of the Geological Society of London in 1846, awarded the Wollaston donation-fund by the Geological Society in 1865; on 2 December 1869 he committed suicide by throwing himself into the Thames)