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Richard Inwards
Mining engineer, astronomer, and meteorologist From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Richard Inwards (22 April 1840, Houghton Regis – 30 September 1937, London) was a mining engineer, astronomer and meteorologist.[1][2]
Inwards managed the San Baldomero mine in Bolivia for Evans and Askin and then a mine in Spain for the Manganese Company. He reported on mines and mining projects in South America, Mexico, Norway, Austria, Spain, Portugal and England. He was a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society (elected 8 February 1861)[3] and a Fellow of the Royal Meteorological Society (elected 19 March 1862). He served as president of the Royal Meteorological Society in 1894 and 1895.[4]
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Selected works
- Weather lore. 1869.; 3rd edition. 1898.
- Temple of the Andes. 1884.
- William Ford Stanley: his life and work. 1911.
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