John Phillips FRS was an English geologist. In 1841 he published the first global geologic time scale based on the correlation of fossils in rock strata, thereby helping to standardize terminology including the term Mesozoic, which he invented.
Bust of John Phillips in the Oxford University Museum.
Portrait
Blue plaque commemorating John Phillips in the York Museum Gardens
The Yorkshire Museum is a museum in York, England. It was opened in 1830, and has five permanent collections, covering biology, geology, archaeology, numismatics and astronomy.
The museum building in the early 1900s
York Observatory
The final known inscription of the Roman Ninth Legion, the Legio IX Hispana (here inscribed in the bottom line as LEG VIIII HI(SP), whose ultimate fate is unknown.