Robert Etheridge
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Date | Details |
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1846 | Born May 23rd, son of Robert Etheridge, Geologist. |
1819 | Born December 3rd at Ross, Herefordshire. Educated at private school in Ross. Became tutor at a school in Bristol, then entered business. Met W. Sanders, geologist, and S. Stutchbury, Curator of Museum of Natural History at Bristol. |
1850-1857 | Succeeded Stutchbury as Curator. Also became lecturer on Botany in Bristol Medical School. |
1846 | Took up geological work in Australia in first Geological Survey of Victoria under A.R.C. Selwyn. Survey disbanded and Etheridge returned home. |
1871 | Appointed Palaeontologist to Geological Survey of Scotland (his father being Palaeontologist to English Survey). |
1854 | F.G.S. |
1878 | Resigned. Appointed Assistant Naturalist, British Museum, on removal of collections to South Kensington. |
1855 | F.R.S.E. |
1857 | Appointed Assistant Naturalist under Huxley at Jermyn Street to catalogue and describe Mesozoic and Cainozoic fossils. |
Prepared catalogue of Blastoidea with help of P.H. Carpenter. | |
Report on Thames mud and water printed. | |
Compiled bibliography of Australian Geology. | |
1863 | Succeeded J.W. Salter as Palaeontologist. |
Studied fossils sent from Queensland by R. Logan Jack. | |
1887 | Returned to Australia as Palaeontologist to Geological Survey of New South Wales and to Australian Museum, Sydney. Worked there for last 33 years of his life. |
1865 | “Catalogue of Fossils in Museum of Practical Geology”. |
1892 | Produced joint work with Jack on “The Geology and Palaeontology of Queensland and New Guinea”. |
1867 | Paper to Geological Society on “Physical structure of N. Devon and palaeontological value of Devonian fossils”. (defence of unity of Devonian system). |
1868 | Report on Somerset Coalfield to “Royal Commission on Coal”. |
1895 | Became Director of Australian Museum. |
1871 | F.R.S. |
Initiated “Records of the Geological Survey”; founded new Library; published important memoirs on fossils of older rocks; founded “Records of the Australian Museum”; introduced popular science lectures and demonstrations. | |
1880 | Murchison Medal. |
1895 | Received Clarke Memorial Medal from Royal Society of New South Wales |
1881-1882 | President of Geological Society. Addresses on analysis and distribution of British Palaeozoic and Jurassic fossils. |
1911 | Received Muller Memorial Medal from the Australian Association for the Advancement of Science. |
1920 | Died January 4th at Colo Vale, near Sydney. |
Resigned from Geological Survey. | |
Appointed Assistant Keeper in British Museum Geology Department. | |
1885 | “Stratigraphical geology and palaeontology” published. |
1888 | “Fossils of the British Islands, stratigraphically and zoologically arranged” (1st volume on Palaeozoics published). |
1891 | Retired. Consulting Geologist to Dover Coal Boring. |
1896 | Bolitho Medal from Royal Geological Society of Cornwall |
1897 | Paper on “The Kent Coalfield” to engineering conferences. |
1903 | Died. |
Biographies and obituaries
Obituary - Robert Etheridge, F.R.S., L.& E., F.G.S. Born 3rd December 1819, died 18th December 1903. Geologists Magazine. New Series. v. 1 p.42-48. 1904
Obituary - Robert Etheridge (1847 - 1920). Geologists Magazine. Whole Series. v. 57 p.239-240. 1920
Lamplugh, G.W. Obituary - Robert Etheridge (son of a former President). [In Anniversary Address.]. Proceedings of the Geological Society in Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society. v. 76 p.lix-lx. 1920
Geikie, A. Obituary - Robert Etheridge. [In Anniversary Address.]. Proceedings of the Geological Society in Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society. v. 60 p.lxviii-lxxi. 1904
Proceedings Royal Society LXXV (1905) p. 258.
Robert Etheridge — Wikipedia article
Etheridge, Robert Encyclopedia Britannica 1911 article on Wikisource
Publications
Date | Details |
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1904 | List of works and Memoirs: Geological Magazine (1904) pp 46-48. |
1872 | Fossil lists in Memoir: North Ayrshire (1872). |
1873 | Fossil lists in Memoir: Central Lanark (1873). |
1879 | Fossil lists in Memoir: Airdrie etc. (1879). |
1877 | Fossil lists in Memoir: Dumfries (1877). |
BGS archives
Ref No | Title | Description |
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GSM/DC/A/C/6/415 | R Etheridge: Minute of appointment. | |
GSM/DC/A/C/7/260 | R Etheridge: Minute of promotion. | |
GSM/DC/A/C/17/74 | R Etheridge: Memorandum on the distribution of duplicates | |
GSM/DC/A/C/17/158 | R Etheridge: Minute on his duties and pay | |
GSM/DC/A/C/24/113 | R Etheridge: Letter on Arctic fossils. | |
GSM/DC/A/C/25/92-97 | R Etheridge: Letters about his resignation and removal to the British Museum. | |
GSM/DC/A/C/25/93 | E A Bond: Letter on the transfer of R. Etheridge. | |
GSM/DC/A/C/25/93-97 | R Etheridge: Letter on his transfer. | |
GSM/GL/Et | Robert Etheridge (Snr) | Botanist. joined the Survey in 1857 and left in 1881 to join the British Museum (NH). |
GSM/GX/Hm/1 | Copy of "Devonian Rocks and Fossils" by Robert Etheridge (Snr) | The proper title of this is "On the physical structure of West Somerset and North Devon, and on... |