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RefNoEC/1853/12
Previous numbersCert IX, 325; A05810
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TitlePrestwich, Sir Joseph: certificate of election to the Royal Society
CitationJoseph Prestwich Junr Esq. Eminent as a Geologist. The Author of papers on the Geology of Coalbrook Dale & on the structure of Gamrie, published in the Transactions, of the Geol Socy of London
also of papers on the tertiary strata of France & of England published in the Bulletin of the French Geoll Socy and the Quarterly Journal of the Geoll Socy of London
also of a work on the "Water-bearing Strata near London," for several of which works he received the Wollaston Medal from the Geological Society of London.
ProposersFrom General Knowledge. Robert Hudson; John Simon; W J Henwood.
From Personal Knowledge. Charles Lyell; H T De la Beche; Rod I Murchison; Edward Forbes; Andw C Ramsay; Daniel Sharpe; J S Bowerbank; John Phillips; William B Carpenter; Geo Busk; Thomas Huxley; S P Pratt; Ashhurst Majendie
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Prestwich, Sir Joseph: certificate of election to the Royal Society

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NA3811Prestwich; Sir; Joseph (1812 - 1896)1812 - 1896
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