History
The first geological surveys of Newfoundland were begun as early as 1839 by Joseph Jukes, It was, however, in 1864 that the first systematic geological investigations began, when the Geological Survey of Newfoundland was inaugurated under the directorship of Alexander Murray. Murray and his assistant (and eventual successor), James Howley, were pioneering geologists whose work formed the basis for the first geological map of Newfoundland, published in 1907. After Howley's death in 1909, the Survey was temporarily disbanded. It was resurrected in 1926 under H.A. Baker, but it was not until the 1930s, under the leadership of Government Geologist A.K. Snelgrove, working at Princeton University, that the Geological Survey was revived and a continuous series of geological investigations commenced within the country's Department of Natural Resources.
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