Frederick William Rudler
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Timeline
| Date | Details |
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| 1840 | Born. |
| 1861 | Appointed Assistant Curator. |
| 1876 | Resigned. |
| 1876-1879 | Lecturer in Natural Science, Aberystwyth. |
| 1879 | Appointed Assistant Curator and Librarian, and Registrar (R.S.M.). |
| 1887-1889 | President Geologists' Association. |
| 1902 | I.S.O. |
| 1903 | Lyell Medal. |
| 1902 | Retired. |
| 1915 | Died. |
Positions held 9(as listed in Karen’s Cabinet of Curiosities November 2017, see below for link)
1869 Assistant Secretary and sub-editor for Journal, Ethnological Society, London; joined the British Association (1872-79 Secretary of the Association’s Anthropological Department and 1880 President of the same)
1870 Fellow of the Geological Society (Lyell Medal 1903)
1871 Fellow of the Anthropological Institute (1873 elected Council member; 1875 Director, jointly with Edward Brabrook; 1880-81 Vice President, 1898-99 President)
1874 Joined the Geologists’ Association (1887-89 President)
1888 Honorary Treasurer at the Fourth Session of the International Geological Congress, London
1901 Chairman of the Conference of Delegates of Corresponding Societies, British Association
1903 President of the Essex Field Club
1904 President of the S E Union of Scientific Societies
Biographies and obituaries
Geologists Magazine 1915, p 142.
Q.J.G.S. 1915, p. lviii.
Frederick William Rudler — Wikipedia article
Frederick William Rudler Northern Mine Reserach Society (from Vol. 24, Trans I.M.M., 1914-15, p.513)
Rudler, Frederick William. (1840 - 1915) Mineralogical Record
Karen’s Cabinet of Curiosities November 2017 Blog article. Aberystwyth Univeristy School of Art, Museum & Galleries
Further biographical references (listed in the Mineralogical Record above)
American Journal of Science: 3rd Series, 189 (1915), 326.
BBA: I 953, 244-247; II 1745, 99.
Cleevely, World Palæontological Collections, 1983: 251.
Geological Magazine: 2 (December 6, 1915), 142-4, portrait.
Lambrecht & Quenstedt, Catalogus, 1938: 371.
Mineralogical Magazine: 17 (1916), 368.
Nature: 94 (1915), 621.
Quarterly Journal of Geological Society of London: 59 (1903), xli-xliii & 71 (1915), lviii-lix.
Sarjeant, Geologists, 1980: 3, 2012. • Science: 41 (1915), 284.
WBI.
Publications
Works listed in the BGS Library catalogue
Survey publications
De La Beche, H.T. ; Reeks, T. ; Rudler, F.W. ; Geological Museum (1876). Catalogue of specimens illustrative of the composition and manufacture of British pottery and porcelain, from the occupation of Britain by the Romans to the present time. 3rd edition by T.Reeks & F.W.Rudler. London : Museum of Practical Geology.
Reeks, T. ; Rudler, F.W. (1871). Catalogue of specimens in the Museum of Practical Geology, illustrative of the composition and manufacture of British pottery and porcelain, from the occupation of Britain by the Romans to the present time (2nd edition). London : HMSO.
Reeks, T. ; Rudler, F.W. (1876). Catalogue of specimens in the Museum of Practical Geology, illustrative of the composition and manufacture of British pottery and porcelain, from the occupation of Britain by the Romans to the present time (3rd edition). London : HMSO.
Smyth, W.W. ; Reeks, T. ; Rudler, F.W. ; Geological Museum (1864). A catalogue of the mineral collections in the Museum of Practical Geology, with introductory and explanatory remarks. London : HMSO.
Hunt, R. ; Rudler, F.W. (1867). A descriptive guide to the Museum of Practical Geology, with notices of the Geological Survey of the United Kingdom, the Royal School of Mines and the Mining Record Office (3rd edition revised and partly re-written). London : HMSO.
Hunt, R. ; Rudler, F.W. ; Geological Museum (1877). A descriptive guide to the Museum of Practical Geology, with notices of the Geological Survey of the United Kingdom, the Royal School of Mines, and the Mining Record Office. 4th edition revised and partly re-written. London : HMSO.
Holmes, T.V. ; Cole, W. ; Newton, E.T. ; Rudler, F.W. ; Bennett, F.J. ; Woodward, H.B. ; Spurrell, F.C.J. The Essex deneholes : being report of the denehole exploration at Hangman's Wood, Grays, in 1884 and 1887 : Essex Naturalist XII 1887 p225-280 maps.
Rudler, F.W. ; Geological Museum (1905). A handbook to a collection of the minerals of the British Islands, mostly selected from the Ludlam Collection in the Museum of Practical Geology, Jermyn Street, London, SW. London : HMSO.
Rudler, F.W. ; Geological Museum (1893). Handbook to the collection of British pottery and porcelain, in the Museum of Practical Geology, Jermyn Street, London, SW. London : Museum of Practical Geology.
External publications
Rudler, F.W. (1887). Excursion of the Geologists' Association to Cornwall - Monday, August 8th, to Saturday, August 13th, 1887. Proceedings of the Geologists' Association Vol. X pt/no 4 (1887) p. 1-24 (1887) ; p. 1-24.
Rudler, F.W. Excursion to Cornwall : Proceedings of the Geologists' Association 10(4) 1889 p.196-216.
Hunt, R. ; Rudler, F.W. ; Ure, A. (1872). Ure's dictionary of arts, manufactures, and mines containing a clear exposition of their principles and practice. 6th ed. London : Longmans, Green & Co..
Hunt, R. ; Rudler, F.W. ; Ure, A. (1878). Ure's dictionary of arts, manufactures, and mines containing a clear exposition of their principles and practice; [with supplement]. 7th ed. London : Longmans, Green & Co..
BGS archives
| Ref No | Title | Description |
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| GSM/BA/A/2 | Letters relating to the Department of Practical Science and Art, Council on Education and Board of Education | 56 Letters including letters to Archibal Geikie, Trenham Reeks and F W Rudler |
| GSM/DC/A/C/8/402-404,407 | A C Ramsay: Letters on leave of absence for Rudler. | |
| GSM/DC/A/C/19/84 | T H Huxley: Letters to F W. Rudler about J Percy | |
| GSM/DR/Ge/A/5 | Correspondence on various matters: letters to J.Craik, J.Evans, F.H.Hatch, J.Horne, D.R.Irvine, B.N.Peach (225 items); C.W.Peach, A C Ramsay, T.Reeks, F.W.Rudler, A.Strahan, W.Topley, and W.W.Watts; also some letters to Geikie. | |
| GSM/DR/Ra/A/2 | Correspondence of A.Ramsey in various matters. Includes letters to Aveline (396), W.H.Baily, H.T.De la Beche, H.B.Donnelly, J.B.Jukes, Murchison, B.N. Peach, T.Reeks, F.W.Rudler and J.W.Salter. | |
| Ref No | Title | Description |
| GSM/BA/A/2 | Letters relating to the Department of Practical Science and Art, Council on Education and Board of Education | 56 Letters including letters to Archibal Geikie, Trenham Reeks and F W Rudler |
| GSM/DC/A/C/8/402-404,407 | A C Ramsay: Letters on leave of absence for Rudler. | |
| GSM/DC/A/C/19/84 | T H Huxley: Letters to F W. Rudler about J Percy | |
| GSM/DR/Ge/A/5 | Correspondence on various matters: letters to J.Craik, J.Evans, F.H.Hatch, J.Horne, D.R.Irvine, B.N.Peach (225 items); C.W.Peach, A C Ramsay, T.Reeks, F.W.Rudler, A.Strahan, W.Topley, and W.W.Watts; also some letters to Geikie. | |
| GSM/DR/Ra/A/2 | Correspondence of A.Ramsey in various matters. Includes letters to Aveline (396), W.H.Baily, H.T.De la Beche, H.B.Donnelly, J.B.Jukes, Murchison, B.N. Peach, T.Reeks, F.W.Rudler and J.W.Salter. |
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