Robert Russell C.E., F.G.S.
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| Date | Details |
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| 1842 | Born May 24th. |
| 1867 | Joined Survey. |
| 1882 | Geologist. |
| 1891 | Resigned. Civil Engineer. Authority on haematite ores of West Cumberland and Furness. For many years closely connected with the Whitehaven Scientific Association – President, Hon. Secretary, etc. |
| 1896 | Died May 9th at St. Bees. |
| Part-author with Green, Dakyns, C. Ward, etc of “Yorkshire Coalfield” (1878); also contributed to : “Dewsbury, Huddersfield and Halifax” (1871); “Bradford and Skipton” (1879); “Mallerstang” (1891); “Leeds and Tadcaster” (1871). |
Biographies and obituaries
Teall, J.J.H. Obituary - Robert Russell. [In Anniversary Address.]. Proceedings of the Geological Society in Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society. v. 57 p.lvii-lvii. 1901
“Whitehaven News” (May 10th, 1900)
Publications
Aveline, W.T. ; Green, A.H. ; Dakyns, J.R. ; Ward, J.C. ; Russell, R. ; Geological Survey of Great Britain (1870). The geology of the Carboniferous rocks north and east of Leeds, and the Permian and Triassic rocks about Tadcaster (...quarter-sheet 93SW...). (Memoir (Sheet) Geological Survey of Great Britain (England & Wales) - Old Series). London : HMSO.
Russell, R. ; British Association for the Advancement of Science (1873). Geology of the country around Bradford, Yorkshire : British Association Reports, 1873 Transactions p88-91. (1873).
Dakyns, J.R. ; Tiddeman, R.H. ; Russell, R. ; Clough, C.T. ; Strahan, A. ; Goodchild, J.G. ; Barrow, G. ; Hatch, F.H. ; De Rance, C.E. ; Geological Survey of Great Britain (1891). The geology of the country around Mallerstang with parts of Wensleydale, Swaledale and Arkendale ( sheet 97NW). (Memoir (Sheet) Geological Survey of Great Britain (England & Wales) - Old Series). London : HMSO.
Dakyns, J.R. ; Dalton, W.H. ; Fox-Strangways, C.E. ; Russell, R. ; Geological Survey of Great Britain (1879). The geology of the country between Bradford and Skipton (...quarter sheet 92SE...). (Memoir (Sheet) Geological Survey of Great Britain (England & Wales) - Old Series). London : HMSO.
Green, A.H. ; Dakyns, J.R. ; Ward, J.C. ; Russell, R. ; Geological Survey of Great Britain (1871). The geology of the neighbourhood of Dewsbury, Huddersfield, and Halifax (...Quarter sheet 88NE...). (Memoir (Sheet) Geological Survey of Great Britain (England & Wales) - Old Series). London : HMSO.
Russell, R. ; Green, A.H. ; Geological Survey of Great Britain (1879). The geology of the neighbourhood of Wakefield and Pontefract (...quarter sheet 87NW...). (Memoir (Sheet) Geological Survey of Great Britain (England & Wales) - Old Series). London : HMSO.
Green, A.H. ; Russell, R. ; Dakyns, J.R. ; Ward, J.C. ; Fox-Strangways, C.E. ; Dalton, W.H. ; Holmes, T.V. ; Geological Survey of Great Britain (1878). The geology of the Yorkshire Coalfield. (Coalfield Mem Geol Surv Eng Wales). London : HMSO.