John William Salter A.L.S., F.G.S.
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| Date | Details |
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| 1820 | Born December 15th. Educated at private boarding-school. |
| 1835 | Apprenticed as natural history draughtsman to James de Carle Sowerby. Assisted with plates for “Mineral Conchology”. |
| 1836-1837 | 1st paper “On the habits of Insects”. |
| 1842-1846 | Worked for Sedgwick at the Woodwardian Museum. |
| 1846 | Appointed to post on Geological Survey under E. Forbes. |
| 1854 | Became Palaeontologist to the Survey. |
| Distinguished for knowledge of Palaeozoic Invertebrata and especially for researches on Trilobites. | |
| >30 papers in Journal Geological Society, also Geological Magazine, | |
| Contributions to Survey Memoirs and a Monograph on Trilobites. | |
| 1863 | Resigned from Survey. |
| 1865 | Received Wollaston Fund. |
| 1869 | Died. |
Biographies and obituaries
Details Huxley, T.H. Obituary - John William Salter, A.L.S., F.G.S. [In Anniversary Address.]. Proceedings of the Geological Society in Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society. v. 26 p.xxxvi-xxxix. 1870
Geological Magazine (1869) p. 477
H.B. Woodward, History Geological Society p. 152.
Publications
Memoirs: No. 2 Trilobites (1849) with E. Forbes.
Memoirs: No. 5 Echinodermata (1856) with Forbes and S.P. Woodward.
Memoirs: No. 7 Trilobites (1853).
Memoirs: No. 11 Trilobites (1864) with C.W. Thomson.
Monographs: No.1 On the genus Pterygotus (18590 with T.H. Huxley.
Lists of fossils in: Edinburgh (1861); Peebles (1869); East Berwick (1873).
BGS archives
| Ref No | Title | Description |
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| GSM/DC/A/C/6/138 | J W Salter: Letter accepting appointment. | |
| GSM/DC/A/C/7/245-247 | R I Murchison: Memoranda. Mr. Salter's boxes. | |
| GSM/DC/A/C/7/250 | J W Salter: Letter of resignation. | |
| GSM/DC/A/C/7/250-252 | R I Murchison: Letters. Staff. Salter's resignation. | |
| GSM/DC/A/C/7/497 | J W Salter: Letter to T. Reeks | |
| GSM/DC/A/C/8/69 | T H Huxley: Letters to and from J.W. Salter. | |
| GSM/DC/A/C/8/69-70 | J W Salter: Letters to H.T. Huxley. | |
| GSM/DC/A/C/12/171 | J W Salter: Letter of re-application | |
| GSM/DC/A/C/13/136 | J W Salter: Letter about a pay rise. | |
| GSM/DC/A/C/14/2 | J W Salter: Letter of appointment. | |
| GSM/DC/A/C/15/185 | J W Salter: Letter about his 'memoir' | |
| GSM/DR/Mu/A/2 | Loose correspondence with range of officers and geologists including R.Hunt, R.Lowe, C.W.Peach, Salter, T.Reeks (54 in guardbook) and others | |
| 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. | |
| GSM/GL/Bo | C.R.Bone | Charles Bone joined the Survey as Artist in 1845. In 1849 De la Beche initiated a series of publications known as 'Decades' - 'Figures and Descriptions of British Organic Remains'. Each part contained 10 plates which were initially engraved onto copper but later lithographed. The first five of these were written by Edward Forbes and published between 1849 and 1856. Salter also published three Decades on Trilobites.Huxley produced two on Fossil Fishes. Bone and W.H.Baily were employed to draw the illustrations for these. |
| GSM/GL/Fb/3 | Correspondence with other geologists: W.H.Baily, P.H.Gosse, J.W.Salter, C.Stokes and others. | |
| GSM/GL/Sl | J.W.Salter | John William Salter was appointed as Assistant to Edward Forbes in 1846 and became Palaeontologist in 1854 when Forbes died. He was also responsible for palaeontological work in Ireland until 1857 when W.H.Baily transferred to the Irish survey and took over.Salter helped in the preparation of publications like the Decades and catalogues for the Museum. He described the fossils of North Wales which accompanied Ramsay's memoir of 1866 and worked with Phillips on the palaeontology of the Malvern Hills. He remained in Jermyn St until 1863 when he left to work at Cambridge. |
| GSM/GL/Sl/1 | Correspondence inc. letters to H.De la Beche with details of geology of Devon, R.I.Murchison, E.T.Newton, C.W.Peach, J.Percy, A.C.Ramsay and T.Reeks. Also a letter from W.Sowerby to T.Reeks on circumstances of Salter's death. |
John William Salter
John William Salter was appointed as Assistant to Edward Forbes in 1846 and became Palaeontologist in 1854 when Forbes died. He was also responsible for palaeontological work in Ireland until 1857 when W.H.Baily transferred to the Irish survey and took over.Salter helped in the preparation of publications like the Decades and catalogues for the Museum. He described the fossils of North Wales which accompanied Ramsay's memoir of 1866 and worked with Phillips on the palaeontology of the Malvern Hills. He remained in Jermyn St until 1863 when he left to work at Cambridge.