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== BGS archives ==
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! G Barrow: GSM/GL/Bw/29/242, 248 !! Letter on his appointment. !!
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| GSM/DC/A/C/24/40, 45 || G Barrow: Letter on his appointment. ||
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| GSM/GL/Br || G Barrow || Barrow joined the Survey in 1876.
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| GSM/GL/Br/5 || Correspondence from Barrow to: Clough, Flett, Peach, Howell, S.V.Wood and others. || Letters about geological succession in Scotland and about boulder clay of Yorkshire.
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| GSM/GL/De/1 || Two maps by H.Dewey: water contour map London; underground contours of the top of Chalk (G.Barrow... ||
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| GSM/GL/We/6 || Copy letter to G.Barrow re survey of southern Skye ||
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| GSM/GX/Ga/31 || Map "Barrow in Furness" || 1 inch geological map (Solid)
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| GSM/MG/C/9 || Series of papers and files on specimen presentations and donations: Includes details on specific... || Includes: Correspondence and minutes re presentation to Museum of flint implements from...
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[[Category:Pioneers of the British Geological Survey]]
[[Category:Pioneers of the British Geological Survey]]

Revision as of 17:50, 31 July 2020

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Educated at the Philological School conducted by Dr. Abbott. Turner Scholarship. Matriculated at 15. Elected Associate of King’s College.
1871 Became Private Secretary to Poulett Scrope. Recommended by him to Ramsay, then Director of Survey.
1876 Poulett Scrope died, and Barrow invited to fill vacancy on Survey staff.
1896 Geologist. First worked in E. Yorkshire; made important contributions to literature of Mesozoic rocks.
Through association with Allan Dick became interested in igneous and metamorphic rocks.
Worked at igneous and structural problems in the Eastern Highlands; the first to recognise and map zones of progressive metamorphism. Paper: “On an Intrusion of Muscovite - Biotite - Gneiss...” and others.
1900 Returned to England. Worked in the Cheadle and North Staffordshire Coalfield and later in the granitic and mining areas of Devon and Cornwall.
1909 District Geologist for London. Particularly interested in water-supply and in the construction and maintenance of tube railways.
1912 Bolitho Medal from Geological Society of Cornwall.
1913 Murchison Medal.
1915 Retired from Survey.
1932 Died July 23rd.

Biographies and obituaries

Obituary - George Barrow. [1853-1932]. Proceedings of the Geologists Association. v. 44 p.111-112. 1933

Spencer, L.J. Obituary - George Barrow. Born in 1853, died 23rd July 1932. Mineralogical Magazine. v. 23 p.341. 1933

Thomas, H.H. Obituary - George Barrow, born in 1853, died 1932. Proceedings of the Geological Society in Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society. v. 89 p.lxxxvii-lxxxix. 1933

Wilcockson, W.H. Obituary - George Barrow, M.I.M.M., F.G.S. Proceedings of the Yorkshire Geological Society. v. 22 p.242-243. 1934

George Barrow (geologist) - Wikipedia article

BGS archives

G Barrow: GSM/GL/Bw/29/242, 248 Letter on his appointment.
GSM/DC/A/C/24/40, 45 G Barrow: Letter on his appointment.
GSM/GL/Br G Barrow Barrow joined the Survey in 1876.
GSM/GL/Br/5 Correspondence from Barrow to: Clough, Flett, Peach, Howell, S.V.Wood and others. Letters about geological succession in Scotland and about boulder clay of Yorkshire.
GSM/GL/De/1 Two maps by H.Dewey: water contour map London; underground contours of the top of Chalk (G.Barrow...
GSM/GL/We/6 Copy letter to G.Barrow re survey of southern Skye
GSM/GX/Ga/31 Map "Barrow in Furness" 1 inch geological map (Solid)
GSM/MG/C/9 Series of papers and files on specimen presentations and donations: Includes details on specific... Includes: Correspondence and minutes re presentation to Museum of flint implements from...