| Authorised form of name | Andrews; Charles William (1866 - 1924); palaeontologist |
| Dates | 1866 - 1924 |
| Nationality | British |
| Place of birth | Hampstead, Middlesex, England |
| Date of birth | 30 October 1866 |
| Place of death | London, England |
| Date of death | 25/05/1924 |
| Occupation | palaeontologist |
| Research field | Vertebrate palaeontology |
| Palaeontology |
| Activity | Education:
DSc (Lond); BA
Career:
Awarded assistantship in the Department of Geology in the British Museum (Natural History) following a competitive exam (1892); described Aepyornis titan, the extinct "Elephant Bird" of Madagascar (1894) and noticed connections among widely separated flightless rails of Mauritius, the Chatham Islands, and New Zealand, deducing their flightless character had been independently evolved on the spot; took interest in plesiosaurs and other sea-reptiles whilst accepting gifts from Alfred Nicholson Leeds, to the British Museum, of Jurassic marine reptiles from the Oxford Clay of Peterborough, culminating in a catalogue of the Leeds collection at the British Museum (2 vols. 1910-13); elected to spend several months at Christmand Island, Indian Ocean, to inspect it before the activities of phosphate mining compromised its natural history (1897) and subsequently publishing its results via the British Museum (1900); joined Beadnell of the Geological Survey of Egypt, inspecting fossils of freshwater fishes in the Fayoum (1900).
Memberships:
Zoological Society
Medals/Awards:
Lyell Medal 1916 |
| Membership category | Fellow |
| Date of election | 03/05/1906 |
| Age at election | 40 |
| Proposer | Henry Woodward; Arthur Smith Woodward; Edwin Ray Lankester; John Murray; Alfred Newton; Hans Friedrich Gadow; Albert Charles Lewis Gotthilf Gunther; Adam Sedgwick; Edward Bagnall Poulton; Walter Frank Raphael Weldon; Richard Lydekker; Arthur William Rucker |
| PublishedWorks | RCN 25028
RCN 25029
RCN 25031
RCN 25030 |
| OtherInfo | Became one of the foremost exponents of vertebrate palaeontology |
| Royal Society Obituary or Memoir | Click to view (may be contained within a meeting notice, presidential address or list of death notices) |
| Source | Sources:
Bulloch's Roll
Obituaries:
Proc Roy Soc Series B 1926 vol 100 pp i-iii, plate, signed by A S W |
| Virtual International Authority File | http://viaf.org/viaf/315522788 |
| Code | NA2169 |
| RefNo | Title | Date |
| RR/17/113 | Referee's report by Richard Lydekker, on a paper 'On the skull, mandible, and milk dentition of Palæomastodon, with some remarks on the tooth change in the proboscidea in general' by Charles William Andrews | 9 July 1907 |
| RR/16/4 | Referee's report by Richard Lydekker, on a paper 'On the evolution of the Proboscidea' by Charles William Andrews | 28 March 1903 |
| RR/16/3 | Referee's report by Hans Friedrich Gadow, on a paper 'On the evolution of the Proboscidea' by Charles William Andrews | 23 March 1903 |
| RR/17/114 | Referee's report by Hans Friedrich Gadow, on a paper 'On the skull, mandible, and milk dentition of Palæomastodon, with some remarks on the tooth change in the proboscidea in general' by Charles William Andrews | [July 1907] |
| NLB/27/66 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Dr Charles William Andrews, [Fellow of the Royal Society] | 25 June 1903 |
| NLB/34/171 | Copy letter from Archibald Geikie, to Dr Charles William Andrews, Fellow of the Royal Society | 8 December 1906 |
| NLB/34/192 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Dr Charles William Andrews, Fellow of the Royal Society | 10 December 1906 |
| NLB/32/747 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to [Messrs Harrison & Sons] | [19 May 1906] |
| NLB/36/24 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Dr Charles William Andrews, Fellow of the Royal Society | 25 July 1907 |
| NLB/37/209 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Dr C [Charles] W [William] Andrews FRS | 14 February 1908 |
| NLB/37/132 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Dr C [Charles] W [William] Andrews FRS | 29 January 1908 |
| NLB/36/397 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Dr Charles William Andrews, Fellow of the Royal Society | [25 October 1907] |
| NLB/36/527 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Dr Charles William Andrews, Fellow of the Royal Society | 11 November 1907 |
| NLB/36/688 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Dr Charles William Andrews, Fellow of the Royal Society | 2 December 1907 |
| NLB/44/109 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Dr C [Charles] W [William Andrews FRS | 8 May 1911 |
| NLB/47/256 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Dr C [Charles] W [William] Andrews FRS | 4 January 1913 |
| NLB/46/635 | Copy letter from Henry George Lyons, to Dr Charles William Andrews, Alfred Harker, Dr George Jennings Hinde, Clement Reid, Professor Albert Charles Seward, Professor William Whitehead Watts, Captain Thomas Henry Tizard, Professor John Walter Gregory | 7 October 1912 |
| NLB/46/851 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Charles William Andrews, Fellow of the Royal Society | 11 November 1912 |
| NLB/51/287 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society to Dr Charles William Andrews FRS | 2 February 1915 |
| NLB/53/54 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Dr. [Charles William] Andrews, FRS | 27 March 1916 |
| RR/22/104 | Referee's report by Charles William Andrews, on a paper 'On the structure of the Dicynodont skull' by Igerna Sollas | 31 January 1916 |
| RR/22/105 | Referee's report by Charles William Andrews, on a paper 'The skull of ichthyosaurus, studied in serial sections' by William Johnson Sollas | 1916 |
| RR/17/399 | Referee's report by Charles William Andrews, on a paper 'The possible ancestors of the horses living under domestication' by James Cossar Ewart | June 1909 |
| RR/27/40 | Referee's report by Charles William Andrews, on a paper 'Le centenaire des iguanodons (1822-1922)' by Louis Dollos | December 1922 |
| NLB/64/560 | Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Dr. [Charles William] Andrews, FRS | 04 May 1923 |
| NLB/65/534 | Copy letter from William Bate Hardy, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Aubrey Strahan, FRS | 14 November 1923 |
| NLB/66/615 | Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Arthur Smith Woodward, FRS | 6 June 1924 |
| RR/31/79 | Referee's report by Charles William Andrews, on the Croonian Lecture 'The evolution and origin of the amphibia' by David Meredith Seares Watson | [February 1924] |
| NLB/66/571 | Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to the Manager, (Trustees Department) National Provisional Bank Ltd., 2 Princes St. E.C.2 | 30 May 1924 |
| NLB/69/724 | Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to C. D. Sherborn Esq., Fulham, SW | 15 September 1926 |
| NLB/69/627 | Copy letter from Henry Hallett Dale, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Arthur Smith Woodward, FRS | 30 June 1926 |
| NLB/36/260 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Miss Gertrude Mary Woodward | 4 October 1907 |
| NLB/36/610 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Dr Charles William Andrews, Fellow of the Royal Society | 19 November 1907 |
| EC/1906/01 | Andrews, Charles William: certificate of election to the Royal Society | |
| NLB/37/78 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Dr C [Charles] W [William] Andrews FRS | 21 January 1908 |
| RR/21/5 | Referee's report by Reginald Innes Pocock, on a paper 'A description of the skull and skeleton of a peculiarly modified rupicaprine antelope (Myotragus balearicus, Bate), with a notice of a new variety, M. balearicus var. major' by Charles William Andrews | [June 1914] |
| RR/21/6 | Referee's report by James Cossar Ewart, on a paper 'A description of the skull and skeleton of a peculiarly modified rupicaprine antelope (Myotragus balearicus, Bate), with a notice of a new variety, M. balearicus var. major' by Charles William Andrews | [September 1914] |
| MC/23/16 | Letter from [Charles William] Andrews, British Museum (Natural History), Cromwell Road, Londown, to the Assistant Secretary, Royal Society | 15 January 1908 |
| MC/27/3 | Letter from Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, SW, to the Assistant Secretary, Royal Society | 6 November 1912 |
| MC/22/7 | Letter from [Charles William] Andrews, British Museum (Natural History) Cromwell Road, London, to the Secretary of the Royal Society | 22 October 1907 |
| MC/21/7 | Letter from [Charles William] Andrews, British Museum (Natural History), Cromwell Road, London, to the Secretaries of the Royal Society | 12 March 1906 |
| MC/22 | Volume 22 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society | 1907 |
| MC/21 | Volume 21 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society | 1906 |
| MC/23 | Volume 23 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society | 1908 |
| RR/16/5 | Referee's report by William Thomas Blanford, on a paper 'On the evolution of the Proboscidea' by Charles William Andrews | 20 April 1903 |