Trenham Reeks
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| Date | Details |
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| 1839 | Joined Survey 9th September. |
| Became Registrar of Royal School of Mines. | |
| Handbook on ceramics with De la Beche. | |
| 1851 | Curator of the Museum of practical Geology including the Survey Library. |
| 1879 | Died 5th May. |
Biographies and obituaries
Trenham Reeks. (1879). Geological Magazine, 6(6), 288-288. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0016756800157425
Trenham Reeks . Nature 20, 38–39 (1879). https://doi.org/10.1038/020038a0
Publications
Works listed in the BGS Library catalogue
De La Beche, H.T.. Reeks, T.. Geological Museum. 1855. 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. - London: Museum of Practical Geology
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
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Reeks, Trenham (1823-1879) Geologist
Trenham Reeks
Trenham Reeks - the first Survey librarian.
Reeks was born in 1823. He was appointed Assistant Curator of the Museum of Economic Geology in 1839 and Curator and Librarian in 1851. He was also Registrar of the Royal School of Mines, 1851–1879; he died on 5 May 1879.
His obituary in Nature described:
'the little, rather dingy room in which for well nigh thirty years, he has sat amidst blue-books, calendars, mineralogical specimens, and a rather orderly chaos of miscellaneous objects.'
The collection at BGS contains two letters to Reeks from Charles Darwin