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Lucas Barrett
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Lucas Barrett (14 November 1837 – 19 December 1862) was an English naturalist and geologist. He was the director of the Jamaican Geological Survey from 1859 to 1862. He was a young member of the Geological Society and became England's Government Geological Inspector to the West Indies.
His untimely death was caused by drowning while investigating a sea-bottom near Kingston, Jamaica.
Barrett was born in London on November 14, 1837, the firstborn son of an unidentified mother and George Barrett, an iron founder who designed iron work for the London Kings Cross Railway Station. He completed his preliminary education in Royston, Hertfordshire.
On March 8, 1859, Alice Maria Barrett married Lucas Barrett at Church of St Mary the Great, Cambridge. Sources do not indicate Alice Maria Barrett's career nor the story of their meeting. Alice Maria Barrett's parents were Maria Reed and Robert Barrett. The marriage was recorded in the Cambridge section of the Bury and Norwich Post on March 15, 1859.
Barrett was educated at University College School.
In 1853, he went to Ebersdorf, near Lobenstein, Vogtland, Germany to study botany and chemistry for a year.
On May 2, 1855, at the age of 18 years old, Barrett became a member of the Geological Society.
In 1855, he accompanied Robert MacAndrew on a dredging excursion from the Shetland Islands to Norway, Finland, and beyond the Arctic Circle. He subsequently made other cruises, to Greenland and to the coast of Spain. These expeditions laid the foundations of an extensive knowledge of the distribution of marine life.
Circa 1858 in Norway, Barrett and R. MacAndrew discovered Geodia barretti, a massive deep-sea sponge, on the coast of Norway. British naturalist James Scott Bowerbank named it Geodia barretti to honor Barrett.
In 1855, he was engaged by Adam Sedgwick to assist in the Woodwardian Museum at Cambridge. During the following three years, he aided the professor by delivering lectures. He discovered bones of birds in the Cambridge Greensand, and he prepared a geological map of Cambridge on the one-inch Ordnance map.
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