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Alexander Macmillan Heron, BSc DSc FGS FRGS, FRSE (31 July 1884 – 1971), was a Scottish geologist who became Director of the Geological Survey of India. He is best known for his participation in the 1921 British Mount Everest reconnaissance expedition following which he produced a geological map of the Everest region of Tibet. ==Early life and professional career== Alexander Heron was born in Duddingston, Edinburgh on 31 July 1884, son of William Heron, a coal agent who later became a macer (court usher), and Joan Heron, née Macmillan.〔 〕 He graduated from Edinburgh University in engineering in 1906 and in that year he joined the Geological Survey of India.〔 In 1911, in South Stoneham, Hampshire, he married Margaret Kirsopp of Musselburgh and in 1915 they had a daughter, Margaret Edgware Kirsopp. 〔Ancestry.co.uk〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~heron1/fam467.html )〕 He was elected fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1925 and, succeeding Sir Lewis Leigh Fermor, he became the Survey's director in 1936 until stepping down from that post in 1939.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.royalsoced.org.uk/cms/files/fellows/biographical_index/fells_indexp1.pdf ) (【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.new1.dli.ernet.in/data1/upload/insa/INSA_1/20006188_27.pdf )〕 From 1934 to 1937 he was president of the Calcutta Geographical Society (which in 1951 became the Geographical Society of India). In 1948 Heron was geological advisor for Hyderabad. He continued publishing research papers for the Geological Survey into the 1950s and, after 23 years of geological survey in Rajasthan he published his ''magnum opus'', "The Geology of Central Rajasthan", in 1953.〔 He died in 1971 aged 86 while he was staying in the Nilgiri Hills of southern India.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Alexander Heron」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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