Frederick James Foot M.A., F.R.G.S.I.
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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. |