V.—The High Terrace of the Thames: Report on Excavations made on behalf of the British Museum and H.M. Geological Survey in 1913

Archaeologia ◽  
1914 ◽  
Vol 65 ◽  
pp. 187-212 ◽  
Author(s):  
Reginald A. Smith ◽  
Henry Dewey
Keyword(s):  
British Museum ◽  
Geological Survey ◽  
Joint Investigation ◽  
High Terrace ◽  
River Thames ◽  
Dual Capacity

The joint investigation of the deposits belonging to the 100-ft. terrace of the river Thames was continued last year under the same auspices as in 1912 at certain spots in the neighbourhood of Greenhithe and Crayford, respectively east andwest of Dartford, Kent. Special facilities were again afforded by the Trustees ofthe British Museum and the Director of the Geological Survey; but the fund drawn on for this work is under the control of Sir Hercules Read, who in his dual capacity as President of the Society and Keeper of the British and Medieval Departmentof the British Museum is anxious to sustain the effort that is being made to bring archaeology into touch with geology, and is at the same time gratified to enlist the sympathies of unofficial workers by having the report presented to the Society.

VI.—Researches at Rickmansworth: Report on Excavations made in 1914 on behalf of the British Museum

Archaeologia ◽  
1915 ◽  
Vol 66 ◽  
pp. 195-224 ◽  
Author(s):  
Reginald A. Smith ◽  
Henry Dewey
Keyword(s):  
British Museum ◽  
Vice President ◽  
Geological Survey ◽  
Leave Of Absence ◽  
High Terrace ◽  
Made In ◽  
At Home

After two short seasons spent in investigating the high terrace of the lower Thames, it was considered desirable to examine the gravel of a tributary, in order to equate if possible the various deposits in the two valleys, and to confirm or correct the sequence deduced from former excavatións at home and abroad. Two sites near Rickmansworth, at and just below the junction of the Gade and Colne rivers, have been known for years as productive of palaeoliths, and every facility was readily afforded for examining the gravel in pits at Croxley Green and Mill End by the respective owners, Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, and Lord Rendlesham, and the lessees, the RickmansworthGravel Co., Ltd., and Messrs. Horwood Bros. Leave of absence was granted by the Trustees of the British Museum, and nine days were devoted to the work in October, the means being provided from a fund under the control of our Vice-President, Sir Hercules Read, Keeper of the Department concerned. Assistance from the geological side was given unofficially by Mr. Dewey, of H.M. Geological Survey, who has read through the paper in manuscript, and contributes an appendix dealing with some of the geological problems involved.

Swanscombe: A Standard Stone-Age Sequence for Britain?

2007 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anne O'Connor
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
British Museum ◽  
Geological Survey ◽  
Research Centre ◽  
Stone Age ◽  
The Past ◽  
Early Twentieth Century ◽  
Apparent Loss ◽  
Differences Of Opinion ◽  
Age Sequence

In the early twentieth century, Palaeolithic research seemed to be flourishing on the Continent. Commont was carrying out groundbreaking work in the Somme, and rich hauls were being recovered from the reindeer-caves of France and Spain. France could also boast a research centre: the Institute of Human Palaeontology, where Boule, Breuil, and Obermaier held posts. Britain, though, was weighed down by nostalgia: unfavourable contrasts were being drawn between current research and the glorious decades of the past when Evans and Prestwich had brought such renown to British investigations. This apparent loss of impetus was noted abroad. Boule considered the British to have sunk into insularity after 1875, never to regain their early brilliance; in 1912, Breuil remarked at a luncheon party in Cambridge that no one in England knew anything about prehistory. The British Museum’s Guide to the Antiquities of the Stone Age, published in 1911 at the height of Commont’s work, declared: ‘the French system has now been revised in the light of recent discoveries, and is the basis of all Continental classifications’. It was regretted that the English river drifts had still not received any systematic excavations, and that the implements in these sediments still lay in confusion. This Guide was produced by Reginald Smith of the British Museum under the direction of Charles Hercules Read (1857–1929). In 1912, the same year that Breuil made his disparaging comment, Read arranged for Smith to excavate in one of the most productive Palaeolithic localities of the Thames Valley: Swanscombe village. Smith was assisted by Henry Dewey (1876–1965) of the Geological Survey, but the negotiations that gained Dewey’s help would also reveal differences of opinion between their two respective institutions about the value of Palaeolithic research. The connections drawn by Smith to the Continental sequence after working at Swanscombe would lift the gloom about British backwardness. These connections would also help draw the Palaeolithic and geological sequences closer together.

I.—Notes on the Palæontology of Western Australia

1890 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 97-97
Author(s):  
Henry Woodward
Keyword(s):  
Natural History ◽  
Western Australia ◽  
British Museum ◽  
Geological Survey

A Part of the fossils described in the accompanying paper were presented to the British Museum (Natural History) by the late Mr. Edward T. Hardman, F.G.S., F.R.G.S.I, in December, 1886; having been collected by him during his exploration of the Kimberley District of Western Australia, in 1883. Some additional specimens, forming a part of this collection, have been obligingly forwarded to me by Professor Edward Hull, LL.D., F.R.S., Director of the Geological Survey of Ireland; having been found, since Mr. Hardman's death, in the Survey Office, Dublin.

The meteoric stone of Lake Brown, Western Australia

1929 ◽  
Vol 22 (126) ◽  
pp. 155-158 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. T. Prior
Keyword(s):  
Western Australia ◽  
British Museum ◽  
Progress Report ◽  
Geological Survey ◽  
Museum Collection ◽  
South West ◽  
Annual Progress Report ◽  
P 53

The discovery of the meteoric stone near Lake Brown, County Avon, South-West Division, Western Australia, was recorded by Dr. Edward S. Simpson in the Annual Progress Report of the Geological Survey of Western Australia for 1921 (1922, p. 53). The following details concerning the meteorite are taken from that report and from a letter of September 25, 1925, sent by Dr. Simpson with the specimen, weighing 174 grams, which was presented to the British Museum collection by Mr. A. Gibb Maitland, at that time Government Geologist of Western Australia.

II.—A Collection of Egyptian Fossil Echinoidea

1898 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 149-161 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. W. Gregory
Keyword(s):  
British Museum ◽  
Large Series ◽  
Geological Survey ◽  
Le Fort

The first collection of Egyptian fossils sent for determination by Captain Lyons, R.E., Director of the Egyptian Geological Survey, to the British Museum, includes an interesting series of Echinoidea, which has been intrusted to me for examination. It is hardly necessary to state that our knowledge of the fossil echinid faunas of Egypt is mainly due to M. P. de Loriol-le-Fort, who has described a large series in two admirable monographs.

II.—Note on a New Species of Onychodus from the Lower Old Red Sandstone of Forfar

1892 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 51-52 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. T. Newton
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
British Museum ◽  
Geological Survey ◽  
Red Sandstone ◽  
A New Species ◽  
Geological Magazine

The occurrence in the Ledbury “Passage-beds” of a united series of teeth referable to the American type of fossil fishes named by Prof. Newberry Onychodus, was made known by Mr. A. Smith Woodward in the GEOLOGICAL MAGAZINE for November, 1888; and in the British Museum Catalogue in 1891. Since then I have met with another example of the genus among the stores of the Geological Survey, which, as it seems to be quite distinct from the Herefordshire species, and is from a distant locality, deserves to be placed on record.

scholarly journals I.—On some New Zealand Graptolites

1908 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 145-148 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ethel M. R. Shakespear
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Natural History ◽  
British Museum ◽  
Geological Survey ◽  
Mining Engineer

The New Zealand graptolites which are dealt with in this paper were collected by Mr. E. Douglas Isaacson, mining engineer, New Zealand, for the British Museum (Natural History), South Kensington. Dr. A. Smith Woodward, F.R.S., very kindly gave me the opportunity of examining this interesting collection, which was sent to me in the Autumn of 1907. Shortly after its receipt Dr. Woodward forwarded me a copy of the New Zealand Geological Survey publication entitled “The Geology of the Parapara Subdivision, Karamea, Nelson,” by James Mackintosh Bell, Director, 1907, which contains brief descriptions and figures of graptolites collected from the same locality as that from which Mr. Isaacson collected his specimens. Since, however, the records of graptolites from New Zealand are very limited in number, and since Mr. Isaacson's collection contains a greater variety of forms than that of any previous observer, it seems advisable to publish the identifications that I have found it possible to make from an examination of his collection.

On the relation of chamosite and daphnite to the chlorite group (With Plates XVIII and XIX.)

1939 ◽  
Vol 25 (167) ◽  
pp. 441-465 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. F. Hallimond
Keyword(s):  
Low Temperature ◽  
Simple Formula ◽  
British Museum ◽  
The Other ◽  
Geological Survey ◽  
Chemical Analyses ◽  
X Ray ◽  
Fine Grained ◽  
New Material ◽  
Crystalline Nature

There is a close optical and chemical resemblance between chamosite, the chloritic mineral of the bedded ironstones, and daphnite, a low-temperature vein-chlorite common in some of the Cornish tin mines. New material has made it possible to undertake a fresh comparison of the two minerals: chemical analyses have been made by Mr. C. O. Harvey, chemist to H.M. Geological Survey, and a report on the X-ray measurements is contributed by Mr. F. A. Bannister, of the Mineral Department of the British Museum.The new analysis of chamosite agrees with the simple formula previously assigned: X-ray examination of material from several localities has now established the distinctive crystalline nature of this fine-grained mineral, which differs structurally from ordinary chlorites such as clinochlore. Daphnite, on the other hand, has the ordinary chlorite structure, but the new analysis fully confirms Tschermak's original opinion that it cannot be represented chemically as a mixture of serpentine and amesite.

scholarly journals Finlay Lorimer Kitchin, 1870-1934

1934 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 349-352
Keyword(s):  
Natural History ◽  
British Museum ◽  
Geological Survey ◽  
Specialized Training ◽  
University Of Munich ◽  
The University ◽  
Short Time

Finlay Lorimer Kitchin, the son of William Henry Kitchin, was born at Whitehaven on December 13, 1870. He was educated at St. Bees School and at St. John’s College, Cambridge, where he spent four years (1890-1894), the last year being devoted entirely to the study of Geology and Palaeontology. Soon after leaving Cambridge he proceeded to the University of Munich, where he commenced research in palaeontology under the direction of Zittel, and graduated Ph.D. summa cum laude in 1897. In after years Kitchin valued equally the broad outlook which he gained in Cambridge and the more specialized training which he received in Munich. After working for a short time unofficially in the British Museum (Natural History) he was appointed Assistant Palaeontologist to the Geological Survey in 1898, and in 1905 he succeeded the late E. T. Newton as Palaeontologist—a post previously held by Edward Forbes, T. H. Huxley, J. W. Salter, and R. Etheridge.

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