The New International Encyclopædia/Blake, James Hopwood

BLAKE, James Hopwood (1843-1901). An English geologist and surveyor, bom in London. He was educated there at King's College, and apprenticed to the civil engineer Brereton, under whose direction he was for several years engaged in railway engineering and construction in Cornwall and" South Wales. In 1868 Blake joined the Geological Survey of Great Britain, and was commissioned to prepare large scale maps of certain portions of southern England. He surveyed parts of Somerset, Suffolk, and Norfolk, and studied the phenomena of the drift deposits of those regions. Several contributions, embracing the results of his observations on the drift and the Mesozoic formations, have been published in the Memoirs of the Geological Survey of the United Kingdom and in the Geological Magazine.