James McCall
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Timeline
| Date | Details |
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| 24th May 1909 | Born, Penicuik |
| 23rd April 1934 | Appointed General Assistant at BGS Edinburgh |
| 1st January 1946 | Promoted to Experimental Officer |
| 1st January 1956 | Promoted to Senior Experimental Officer |
| 11th January 1956 | Elected Fellow of the Geological Society of London |
| 28th March 1962 | Died suddenly |
Obituaries
Obituary - James McCall (Geological Survey of Scotland). Proceedings Geological Society of London part 1602 1962. p. 157–158
Notes
Quotes from above obituary: "In his twenty-eight years of service he worked wholehertedly on the extension and curation of the official collections" and "At the time of his death he was engaged, among his other duties as Senior Experimental Officer, in the selection, arrangement, and indexing of the rock collections made over the past hundred years to illustrate the one-inch geological sheets already published and in progress". Its highly likely this work refers to what is now known as the Systematic Series an extensive series of c 18,000 rock specimens arranged by Scottish 1:163,360 geological sheet order.
BGS Archives
Jame McCall — Personal file