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[https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/139379136/frederick-james-foot Frederick James Foot] - Findagrave | [https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/139379136/frederick-james-foot Frederick James Foot] - Findagrave | ||
KerryGeoAdventures [https:// | KerryGeoAdventures [https://gochahor.wixsite.com/kerrygeo/single-post/2018/01/17/the-hammer-lens-and-pencil-frederick-james-foot-forgotten-irish-geologist-1830-1867 By hammer, lens and ... pencil - Frederick James Foot, forgotten Irish geologist (1830 -1867)] | ||
== Publications == | == Publications == | ||
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Paper to Natural History Society, Dublin: "On the Little Auk taken alive at Athlone" | Paper to Natural History Society, Dublin: "On the Little Auk taken alive at Athlone" | ||
Papers to B.A.: | Papers to B.A.: Geology of the neighbourhood of Tralee (1857). On the geology of Burren in County Clare (1862) (with botanical chart). | ||
Paper to Transactions of the Royal Irish Academy: On the distribution of plants in Burren, County Clare. (and other writings, geological, botanical, meteorological ……). | |||
Paper to Transactions of the Royal Irish Academy: | |||
On the distribution of plants in Burren, County Clare. (and other writings, geological, botanical, meteorological ……). | |||
== BGS archives == | == BGS archives == |
Latest revision as of 13:20, 18 January 2022
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Timeline
Date | Details |
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1830 | Born. |
Visited Scotland, Germany, Sweden, Norway. | |
Educated in Ireland (Trinity College, Dublin). | |
1854 | Appointed Assistant Geologist, 1st August, Irish branch of Geological Survey. Sole or part contributor to 13 explanatory memoirs and surveyor of 30 sheets (7 sheets of sections). |
1862 | Appointed Geologist 1st April. |
1867 | Drowned in skating accident, Lough Key, January 17th while attempting to save life. |
Biographies and obituaries
Geological Magazine (1867) p. 95 and 132.
Frederick James Foot - Findagrave
KerryGeoAdventures By hammer, lens and ... pencil - Frederick James Foot, forgotten Irish geologist (1830 -1867)
Publications
76 works listed in the BGS Library catalogue
Paper to Natural History Society, Dublin: "On the botany and marine zoology of Clare"
Paper to Natural History Society, Dublin: "On Asplenium rata-mararia"
Paper to Natural History Society, Dublin: "Stations of Cystopteris fragilis in the (Irish) Midland Counties"
Paper to Natural History Society, Dublin: "On occurrence of Hymenophyllum Tunbridgluse in County Longford"
Paper to Natural History Society, Dublin: "On flights of swans seen in Roscommon and Galway, winter 1863-4"
Paper to Natural History Society, Dublin: "On the mammalia of the west coast of that county"
Paper to Natural History Society, Dublin: "On the Little Auk taken alive at Athlone"
Papers to B.A.: Geology of the neighbourhood of Tralee (1857). On the geology of Burren in County Clare (1862) (with botanical chart).
Paper to Transactions of the Royal Irish Academy: On the distribution of plants in Burren, County Clare. (and other writings, geological, botanical, meteorological ……).
BGS archives
Ref No | Title | Description |
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GSM/DC/A/C/6/141,163 | F J Foot: Letter of appointment. | |
GSM/DC/A/C/7/209,215 | F J Foot: Letter of promotion. |