| Authorised form of name | Gilbert; Grove Karl (1843 - 1918); geologist |
| Dates | 1843 - 1918 |
| Nationality | American |
| Place of birth | Rochester, New York, USA |
| Date of birth | 06 May 1843 |
| Place of death | Jackson, Michigan, USA |
| Date of death | 01/05/1918 |
| Occupation | geologist |
| Research field | Sedimentology |
| Geology |
| Geomorphology |
| Activity | Education:
University of Rochester, USA
Career: Employed at the Ward Natural Science Establishment, manufacturers and distributors of equipment for schools (1863-1868); joined Gorge M. Wheeler’s geographical survey (1871); transferred to the John Wesley Powell survey (1875); in charge of the Appalachian division of geology (1889-1892). |
| Membership category | Foreign Member |
| Date of election | 28/02/1918 |
| Age at election | 75 |
| Proposer | Joseph John Thomson; Alfred Bray Kempe; Arthur Schuster; William Bate Hardy; William Abbott Herdman; Gilbert Charles Bourne; William Halse Rivers Rivers; Charles Scott Sherrington; Arthur Robertson Cushny |
| Hugh Kerr Anderson; James Swinburne; James Hopwood Jeans;James Whitbread Lee Glaisher; Robert John Strutt; Henry George Lyons; William Whitehead Watts; William Henry Lang; Bertram Hopkinson; George Beilby |
| RSActivity | Wollaston Medal 1900 |
| PublishedWorks | RCN 8652 |
| OtherInfo | Studied meteor craters in Arizona; lunar craters; and crustal movements around Lake Bonneville. |
| Source | Sources:
Bulloch's Roll; DAB; DSB |
| Code | NA5103 |
Archives associated with this Fellow
| RefNo | Title | Date |
| EC/1918/02 | Gilbert, Grove Karl: certificate of election to the Royal Society | |
| NLB/19/347 | Copy letter from Theodore E James, to Professor Joseph Reynolds Green, Fellow of the Royal Society | 18 August 1899 |
| NLB/62/719 | Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [William Whitehead] Watts, FRS | 12 April 1922 |
| MC/33/172 | Letter from [William Whitehead] Watts, Hillside, Langley Park, Sutton, Surrey, to Professor [Arthur] Schuster, [Royal Society] | 15 December 1918 |