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Date_Text	Comment
1868	Joined Survey 1st April.
1869	Resigned 22nd April.
1854	Born November 14th.
1875	Joined Survey as Temporary Fossil Collector.
1882	Assistant Naturalist.
1898	Assistant Curator of Fossils.
1901	Geologist.
1919	Retired.
1934	Died.
1877	Born August 9th.
1903	Joined Survey as Geologist (Senior Geologist 1922).
1928	Retired (ill-health).
1822	Born.
1840	Appointed, Assistant Geologist under De la Beche.
	Worked for a short time in Somerset on the Mendip Hills, then transferred to South Wales and surveyed parts of Pembroke.
	Worked through other countries into North Wales, across borders to parts of West of England and into Midlands as far as Nottingham.
1867	Appointed District Surveyor in charge of mapping of Lake District. Lived at Kendal till retirement.
1882	Retired.
1894	Murchison Medal.
1903	Died May 12th. [Copy of newspaper death notice with manuscript.]
1903	Geol. Mag. 1903 p. 285.
1903	Newspaper death notice attached to ms.
1881	Born July 1st at Kendal. Educated at Kendal Grammar School and at Clare College, Cambridge. (1st in Nat. Science & Physics.)
1902	Joined Geological Survey (Scotland). D.G. 1919.
1929	Survey Service terminated 24/12/29.
1929	Appointed to Chair of Geology at Glasgow in succession to J.W. Gregory. Elected Professor 12/12/29. Term began 1/1/30, lectures 6/1/30.
1930	F.R.S.
	Glasgow Herald 25/2/30.
1819	Born July 7th at Bristol.
1837 - 44	Assistant Curator at Bristol Museum.
1844	Joined Geological Survey as draughtsman.
1845	Appointed Assistant Geologist. Duties confined to museum work.
1854	Appointed Assistant Naturalist under Edward Forbes, later under Huxley.
1857	Transferred to Irish Survey, as Acting Palaeontologist. (Post retained till 1888.)
1868	Additional appointment - Demonstrator in Palaeontology to Royal College of Science for Ireland.
1867	Wollaston Fund from Geol. Soc.
1888	Died Aug 6th near Dublin.
1888	Chief work - description and drawing of fossils, palaeontological. Notes in Irish Memoirs, papers on palaeontological and kindred subjects, 1867-75 “Figures of Characteristic British Fossils”.
	Geol. Mag. 1888, p. 431, 576
	Nature Aug 23. 1888, p. 396
1853	Born December 11th in London.
	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.
	Q.J.G.S. 1933 P. LXXXVII
1833	Born.
1851	Entered Royal School of Mines. Studied under Playfair, Ramsay, Forbes, Warington Smyth, Hunt and Percy.
1853	Went to Freiberg Mining Academy for 3 years.
1855	Returned to England. Joined Geological Survey as Assistant Geologist 15th October.
1858	Resigned 31st. March. Appointed to Boundary Commission of N. America. 6 years survey work in Canada and US.
1863	F.G.S. (Served on Council 1874 - 98. Vice-President.)
1863-88	Government and professional works - mining and metallurgical surveys - explorations abroad.
1872	Sent to report on iron in India (Mem. on Indian Surveys. C.R. Monkham, 1878, p. 224).
1883	Appointed lecturer on metallurgy at Firth College, Sheffield.
1886	Appointed Professor of Metallurgy to the Ordnance College, Woolwich.
1890	Retired.
1909	Died December 5th.
	Examiner to Civil Service Commissioners for appt. of Mine Inspectors.
	Sci. and Art Department and B.Ed. in mining and metallurgy.
	Roy. School of Mines and Camborne Sch. Mines.
	Hon. Member of Chem. Soc., Metall. Soc., Inst of Mining and Metall., Iron and Steel. Inst. Assoc. Member of Inst of Civil Eng., and Royal Sch. Mines. F.G.S.
	Awards: Howard Prize 1897 (Inst. Civ. Eng). Gold Medal 1906 (Inst of Mining and Metall).
	Geol. Mag. 1910, p. 46
1845	Born January 21st.
1868	Joined Survey 1st April.
1899	Retired 31st March.
1907	“Ightham: The Story of a Kentish Village and its surroundings.”
	Hist. Geol. Soc. 1907 p. 213
1821	Born September 23rd.
	Employed in paper factory. Leisure hours devoted to study of glacial, interglacial and post-glacial deposits of west of Scotland (also collected Carboniferous fossils).
1867	Results communicated to Dr Croll and published in Trans. Glasgow. Geol. Soc.
1869	Joined Survey as Fossil Collector (Scotland). Special knowledge of Carboniferous fossils of Central Scotland discovered many new forms - first to record Holothusians in Scottish Carboniferous, and arctic plants in silt of former lakes in Boulder Clay.
1899	Murchison Fund.
1901	Died January 28th.
	Geol. Mag 1901.. 143
	Hist. Geol. Soc. Glasgow 1908, p. 207
1824	Born December 20th.
1855	Joined Geological Survey.
1862	Promoted to Geologist.
	Resident in Jermyn St. 38 years.
1893	Retired.
1906	Died November 8th.
	Geol. Magazine 1907, p. 140
1862	Joined Survey 26th August.
	(Assistant Surveyor. Assoc. Royal School Mines) (Annual Report for 1863 p. 196.)
1863	Died 4th August.
1843	Born July 22nd in London.
	Educated at King’s College.
1843	Apprenticed to engineer, engaged for several years on railway work in Cornwall and S. Wales.
1868	Joined Survey. Became engaged in re-survey of portions of Somerset, later in first detailed Drift Survey of area N.W. of London.
	Transferred to Suffolk and Norfolk. Made careful study of Forest Bed Series.
1884	1” Geol. Survey of England completed. Blake went to Reading and began 6” re-survey and mapping of Drifts.
1901	Died March 5th.
	Memoirs:
	“East Dereham” (1888)
	“Yarmouth and Lowestoft” (1890)
	“Water Supply of Berkshire” (with Whitaker)
	“Reading” (unfinished) (1903)
	“Bury St Edmunds” (1886) with F.J. Bennett
	Contributed notes to:
	“E. Somerset” (1876)
	“Stowmarket” (1881)
	“Norwich” (1881)
	“London” (1889)
	Geol. Mag. 1901, p. 288
1808	Born December 24th.
1845	Joined Survey September.
1875	Died April 9th.
1882	Born March 28th at Spratton, Northants.
1902	Entered St. John’s College, Cambridge.
	1st Class in Nat. Sci. Tripos. Awarded Harkness Scholarship.
1904-11	Devoted spare time to study of Keuper Marls of Leicestershire.
1912	Results published: “The Keuper Marls around Charnwood.”
1908	Joined Geol. Survey of Scotland.
	Mapped part of Mull under C.T. Clough (Leaf-beds at Ardtun). Contributed to Memoir “Tertiary Mull” (1924).
1909	Resigned from Survey.
	Worked abroad as oil geologist - in Galicia, Italy, Trindad, Barbados, Peru, Venezuela, Ecuador, Texas, U.S. and Canada to within the Arctic Circle.
1921	Wollaston Fund.
1929	Died January 18th in London.
	Q.J. 1929 p. LXIV
	Geol. Mag. 1929 p. 191
	Nature, March 30th 1929, p. 500
1817	Born May 17th. Son of Maj. Gen. H. Bristow.
	Educated at King’s College, London. (Civil Engineering and Applied Science).
1842	Joined Survey: (1847 Geologist; 1867 Dist. Surveyor; 1872 Director).
1842	Worked in Radnor district on ORS and Sil:, then on Jurassic of Somerset and Gloucester Later: Dorset, Wilts, Hants, I.W., Berks., Sussex, Weald and E. Essex.
	Memoirs: Isle of Wight (1862). “Berks and Hants” (1862 with Whitaker.) Contrib. Notes to “London Basin”, “Weald”, and “E. Somerset”.
	Mapped and named “Penarth Beds” in Glam., Glas., and Somerset (see Geol. Mag. 1864 p. 238).
1861	“Glossary of Mineralogy” Published.
1862	Elected F.R.S.
1869	Translation of L. Simonin’s “La Vie Souterraine” - “Underground Life: or Mines and Miners.”
1872	Translation of Louis Figuier’s “World before the Deluge: and new chapter on the Rhaetic or Penarth Beds.
	"Appointed Director of Survey, England and Wales. During Directorship 1"" Survey completed."
1888	Retired.
1889	Died June 14th.
	Foreign Honours:
	Diploma from Imp. Geol. Instit. Of Vienna.
	Diploma and Insignia of an officer of Order of SS. Maurice and Lazarus (Italy).
	List of Publications: Geol. Mag. 1889 p. 384.
	Geol. Mag. 1889 p. 381
	Nature, June 27th 1889 p. 206
	Hist. Geol. Soc. H.B. Woodward.
	Times 18th June 1889. [Copy of obituary attached to ms.]
1843	Born December 1st.
1867	Joined Survey 8th August.
1880	Resigned 22nd April.