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Name: Allport, Samuel Brief biography: British, 1816-1897 Nationality: British Occupation: Businessman, Librarian, Curator Date of birth: 1816-23-01 Date of death: 1897-07-07 |
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Samuel Allport FGS, the first librarian at Mason College (the forerunner of the University of Birmingham) and also the curator of the Geology Museum at the college. Prior to this he was a businessman in Brazil and Birmingham. He was a pioneer in microscopic petrology, and the Lapworth Museum of Geology has his petrological collection of early thin sections and hand specimens. |
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| Amphibolite BIRUG 61936 | |
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| Diorite BIRUG 61903 | |
| Diorite BIRUG 61934 | |
| Dolerite BIRUG 61908 | |
| Dolerite BIRUG 61925 | |
| Dolerite BIRUG 61914 | |
| Felsite BIRUG 61893 | |
| Felsite BIRUG 61902 | |
| Felsite BIRUG 61926 | |
| Gabbro BIRUG 61897 | |
| Gabbro BIRUG 61909 | |
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| Gabbro BIRUG 61928 | |
| Gabbro BIRUG 61923 | |
| Gneiss BIRUG 61929 | |
| Gneiss BIRUG 61932 | |
| Gneiss BIRUG 61918 | |
| Granite BIRUG 61913 | |
| Granite BIRUG 61901 | |
| Granite BIRUG 61907 | |
| Hornblende rock BIRUG 61931 | |
| Hornblende rock BIRUG 61900 | |
| Leucite lava BIRUG 61921 | |
| Limestone BIRUG 61904 | |
| Mica schist BIRUG 61920 | |
| Obsidian BIRUG 61922 | |
| Pegmatite BIRUG 61912 | |
| Pegmatite BIRUG 61917 | |
| Peperino BIRUG 61894 | |
| Pitchstone BIRUG 61898 | |
| Pitchstone BIRUG 61916 | |
| Pitchstone BIRUG 61899 | |
| Quartz felsite BIRUG 61933 | |
| Quartz porphyry BIRUG 61905 | |
| Rhyolite BIRUG 61915 | |
| Rhyolite BIRUG 61896 | |
| Rhyolite BIRUG 61924 | |
| Rhyolite BIRUG 61895 | |
| Schist BIRUG 61935 | |
| Schist BIRUG 61919 | |
| Shale BIRUG 61911 | |
| Slate BIRUG 61937 | |
| Talc schist BIRUG 61930 | |
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