George Sharman

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Date	Details
1832	Born September 11th.
	BM.
1855	Joined Geological Survey.
1865	Promoted.
1882	Senior Palaeontologist and Curator of Fossils.
1897	Retired.
1914	Died March 28th.

Biographies and obituaries

George Sharman. (1914). Geological Magazine, 1(5), 240-240. doi:10.1017/S001675680019689X

Publications

Works listed in the BGS Library catalogue

Sharman, G.. Newton, E.T.. 1896. Notes on some Cretaceous fossils from the Drift of Moreseat, Aberdeen

Reid, C.. Sharman, G.. 1886. On the so-called "gault" of west Dereham, in Norfolk: Geological Magazine Dec. 3 Vol. 3 pt/no 2 (1886) p. 55-58

BGS archives

Ref No	Title	Description
GSM/GL/Sr	G.Sharman	Sharman joined the Survey in 1855 and became Assistant Palaeontologist in 1858. he was promoted to Senior Pal and Curator of Fossils in 1882.
GSM/GL/Sr/1	Interleaved copy of 'Catalogue of British Fossils' by J.Morris, 2nd ed., with many pen and ink drawings by Sharman. Letter from Mrs E. Sharman to E.T.Newton is included.