Nathaniel Wetherell

Nathaniel Thomas Wetherell MRCS FGS (September 6, 1800 – December 22, 1875) was a British geologist and surgeon. His work involved the collection of various fossils found in England. He was born, lived, and died in Highgate, England.

Wetherell discovered a strange mixture of rocks and fossils of northern provenance in Coldfall Wood, Muswell Hill in 1835. This led subsequently to the recognition that glaciation had affected southern England.

Selected bibliography

 * Wetherell N.T., 1852, Note on a new species of Clionites (With a Plate.), Annals and Magazine of Natural History 1852. Vol. 10 Jul.-Dec. No. LIX. (No. 59. November 1852.) XXXIII. p. 354.
 * Wetherell N.T., 1859, On the Structure of some of the Siliceous Nodules of the Chalk, Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society 1859 vol 15 issue 1-2 p. 193.
 * Wetherell N.T., 1859, On the occurrence of Graphularia Wetherellii in Nodules from the London Clay and the Crag, Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society 1859 vol 15: p. 30-32.