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[Geological Survey under Sir Aubrey Strahan,1914–1920 The Geological Survey under Sir Aubrey Strahan 1914–1920.] In Flett, J. The first hundred years of the Geological Survey of Great Britain | [[Geological Survey under Sir Aubrey Strahan,1914–1920 The Geological Survey under Sir Aubrey Strahan 1914–1920.]] In Flett, J. The first hundred years of the Geological Survey of Great Britain | ||
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1852 | Born April 20th in Sidmouth, South Devon. |
Educated at Eton and St. Johns College, Cambridge. | |
1874-1875 | Graduated in Natural Science Tripos. |
1875 | Appointed Assistant Geologist on Geological Survey under Ramsay, |
Field work in South Lancashire then Cheshire, Lower Carboniferous of Flintshire, Silurian of Clwydian range, Trias of Vale of Clwyd. | |
1883 | Transferred to Lincolnshire to assist in completing last of Ordnance Survey 1inch maps. |
1884-1885 | Sent to Kendal and Sedburgh. |
1886 | Revised mapping of Coal Measures, Cambrian and Pre-cambrian near Nuneaton. Examined mines in Derbyshire for 2nd edition of North Derbyshire Memoir. |
Began 6 inch survey of south part of Isle of Wight. | |
1887 | Continued work into Purbeck. |
1891 | Began re-survey of South Wales Coalfield, continued till completion, Memoir with W. Pollard.(Isle of Man (1892) and Cumberland Coalfield (1894)). |
1894 | Wollaston Fund. |
1896 | Geologist. |
1901 | District Geologist. |
1903 | Elected F.R.S. |
1904 | President Section C, British Association at Cambridge. |
1905 | Reported on Coalfields of Lancashire, Cheshire and North Wales for the Royal Commission on Coal Supplies, also made a report to Royal Commission on Arsenic Poisoning. |
1909 | Promoted to Assistant to Director. |
British Association meeting at Winnipeg. | |
1910 | Attended International Geological Congress at Stockholm. |
1913 | Contributed British section to Canadian volumes on the “World’s Coal Resources” at International Congress at Toronto. Vice-President at Congress. |
Received Honorary LL.D. from Toronto University. | |
1912-1914 | President of Geological Society. |
1914 | Appointed Director of Geological Survey. |
1919 | Made K.B.E. Received Wollaston Medal. |
1920 | Retired. |
1928 | Died March 4th at Goring, Berkshire. |
Biographies and obituaries
Obituary - Sir Aubrey Strahan, K.B.E., Sc.D., F.R.S. (1852-1928). Geologists Magazine. Whole Series. v. 65 p.239. 1928
Gregory, J.W. Obituary - Sir Aubrey Strahan, former President. [In Anniversary Address.]. Proceedings of the Geological Society in Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society. v. 85 p.lviii-lix. 1929
Nature (March 24th, 1928) p. 461
Aubrey Strahan — Wikipedia article
Eminent Living Geologists: Aubrey Strahan. Geological Magazine. New Series, Decade VI, Vol II (V): 193–198. 1915.
Strahan, Aubrey. Who's Who. Vol. 59. 1907. p. 1691.
Flett, J.S. (1928). Sir Aubrey Strahan 1852–1928. Proceedings of the Royal Society B. 103: xvi–xx.
Geological Survey under Sir Aubrey Strahan,1914–1920 The Geological Survey under Sir Aubrey Strahan 1914–1920. In Flett, J. The first hundred years of the Geological Survey of Great Britain
Publications
Geological Magazine (1915) p. 196-8.
Memoir: Rhyl (1885)
Memoir: South Wales Coalfield, part XI
Memoir: South Wales Coalfield, part X
Memoir: South Wales Coalfield, part VIII
Memoir: South Wales Coalfield, part VII
Memoir: South Wales Coalfield, part VI
Memoir: South Wales Coalfield, part V
Memoir: South Wales Coalfield, part IV
Memoir: South Wales Coalfield, part III
Memoir: South Wales Coalfield, part II
Memoir: South Wales Coalfield, part IX
Memoir: South Wales Coalfield, part I
Memoir: Coals of South Wales (1915)
Memoir: Flint (1882)
Contributed to: Kendal 2nd edition (1888).
Contributed to: Thicknesses of Strata (1916)
Contributed to: Lincoln (1888)
Contributed to: Ingleborough (1888)
Contributed to: Mallerstang (1891)
Contributed to: North Derbyshire 2nd edition (1887)
Contributed to: Isle of Wight 2nd edition (1889)
Special Report: V. Potash, Feldspar (1916)
Special Report: VII. Mineral Oil (1920)
Special Report: XIII. Iron Ores (1920)
Special Report: . Lead and Zinc (1923).
Guides to Model: Thames Valley and Goring (1924).
Guides to Model: Ingleborough (1910)
Guides to Model: Purbeck (1906)