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Authorised form of nameLang; William Dickson (1878 - 1966)
Dates1878 - 1966
Date of birth29 December 1878
Date of death07/03/1966
ActivityEducation:
Harrow School; ScD (Cantab)
Career:
Keeper of the Department of Geology, British Museum
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election02/05/1929
SourceSources:
Bulloch's Roll
Obituaries:
Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 1966 vol 12 pp 367-386, plate, by E I White
Virtual International Authority Filehttp://viaf.org/viaf/24964634
CodeNA1666
Archives associated with this Fellow
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EC/1929/10Lang, William Dickson: certificate of election to the Royal Society
RR/24/58Referee's report by Aubrey Strahan, on a paper 'The pelmatoporinae, an essay on the evolution of a group of cretaceous polyzoa' by William Dickson Lang[December 1917]
RR/24/57Referee's report by Henry Woods, on a paper 'The pelmatoporinae, an essay on the evolution of a group of cretaceous polyzoa' by William Dickson Lang[November 1917]
RR/48/14Referee's report by William Dickson Lang, on a paper 'The lantern and girdle of some recent and fossil Echinoidea' by Herbert Leader Hawkins[January 1934]
RR/49/72Third referee's report by William Dickson Lang, on a paper 'The extinct of rhinoceroses of Baluchistan' by Clive Forster-Cooper19 February 1934
NLB/72/194Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Dr [William Dickson] Lang, FRS15 May 1929
RR/58/68Referee's report by William Dickson Lang, on a paper 'Two new Echinoidea, Aulechinus and Ectinechinus, and an adult plated holothurian, Eothuria, from the Upper Ordovician of Girvan, Scotland' by Ernest William MacBride and William Kingdon Spencer31 March 1937
RR/49/71Referee's report by William Dickson Lang, on a paper 'The extinct of rhinoceroses of Baluchistan' by Clive Forster-Cooper[October 1933]
RR/49/70Second referee's report by William Dickson Lang, on a paper 'The extinct of rhinoceroses of Baluchistan' by Clive Forster-Cooper21 November 1933
RR/56/65Referee's report by William Dickson Lang, on a paper 'On the tooth-replacement in theriodont reptiles' by Francis Rex Parrington6 September 1935
RR/64/113Referee's report by William Dickson Lang, on a paper 'Two new Echinoidea, Aulechinus and Ectinechinus, and an adult plated holothurian, Eothuria, from the Upper Ordovician of Girvan, Scotland' by Ernest William MacBride and William Kingdon Spencer10 Septmber 1937
RR/47/13Referee's report by William Dickson Lang, on a paper 'Fossils of the late pre-cambrian (newer proterogoic) Adelaide series, South Australia' by Tannatt William Edgeworth David and Robin John Tillyard22 June 1932
MC/29/89Letter from John W Evans, The Geologists' Association, University College, London, W.C, to the [Royal Society]6 February 1914
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