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== Timeline ==
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! Date !! Details
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| 1901 || Born
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| 1928 || Geologist
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| 1840 || Born May 8th in Kingstown, County Dublin, son of Glascott Symes M.D. Educated at Trinity College, Dublin, M.A. and Engineering degrees.
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| 1863 || Joined Geological Survey of ireland as Assistant Geologist under J.B. Jukes.
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| 1869 || Promoted to Geologist.
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|  || Surveyed 6 one inch sheets and part of 17 others.
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| 1874 || Secretary of Section C. at British Association in Belfast.
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| 1878 || Secretary of Section C. at British Association in Dublin.
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| 1890 || Transferred to Scotland on completion of 1 inch survey of Ireland. Surveyed parts of Kintyre and Oban districts.
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| 1900 || Retired from Survey.
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| 1906 || Died July 27th near Dublin.
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== Biographies and obituaries ==

[https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0016756800118709 Obituary - Richard Glascott Symes, M.A. Born 8th May 1840, died 27th July 1906.] Geologists Magazine. New Series. v. 3 p.432. 1906

Obituary of Richard Glascott Symes by C., R. Published 1906. The Irish naturalist: a monthly journal of general Irish natural history , Vol. XV, No. 11, pp. 249-250, November, 1906 

== Publications ==

[https://envirolib.apps.nerc.ac.uk/olibcgi?infile=authk.glue&style=authk&nh=20&calling_page=hitlist.glu&key=92482 '''77 works listed in the BGS Library catalogue''']

== BGS archives ==
{| class="wikitable"
! Ref No !! Title !! Description
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| GSM/GL/Sy || R G Symes || 
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