| Reference number | EC/1888/22 |
| Previous numbers | Cert XI, 153 |
| Level | Item |
| Title | Topley, William: certificate of election to the Royal Society |
| Description | Addition to citation on reverse of certificate (in two different hands) |
| Citation | Student of the Royal School of Mines 1858-61. For 20 years engaged in the Geological Survey and has mapped parts of Kent Surrey etc in the south of England and of Durham & Northumberland in the north, with illustrative sections & memoirs. Is the author of a general Memoir on the Geology of the Weald of Kent & Sussex. Author of various papers in Quart Journ Geological Soc; of a paper On the relation of Geology to Agriculture in Journ Roy Agric Soc and on the Channel Tunnel in Quart Journ Sci. Assisted Dr Buchanan in a Report to the Privy Council Medical Officer "On the distribution of Phthsis as affected by dampness of soil. Secretary 1872-81 of the Geol Section of Brit Assoc. Member for England of the Committee for preparing an international Geological map of Europe. |
W. Topley
Add to titles &c since acquired
Editor of the Geological Record
President of the Geologists Association
Report on the National Geolgical Surveys of Europe
Rep Brit Assoc for 1884 pp 221-24 |
| Proposers | From Personal Knowledge: Joseph Prestwich; Andw C Ramsay; H W Bristow; Robert Hunt; St George Mivart; Robert A C Godwin-Austen; Robert Etheridge; Henry Woodward; William Carruthers; Edward Hull; W Boyd Dawkins; T Rupt Jones; T G Bonney; H H Godwin Austen; Wm Pengelly; A Liversidge |
| Extent | 1 sheet |
| Access status | Open |
| Image | 
|
|
Fellows associated with this archive
| Code | Name | Dates |
| NA6161 | Topley; William (1841 - 1894) | 1841 - 1894 |