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RefNoEC/1863/11
Previous numbersCert X, 43
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TitlePengelly, William: certificate of election to the Royal Society
CitationThe Author of a paper on the coal formation of Bovey Tracey read to the Royal Society 1861 also a memoir on the Devonian Fossils of Devon & Cornwall of Memoirs on the ossiferous caves & fissures of Brixham & Oreston read to the British Association, & several papers on geology published in the Transactions of the Royal Geological Society of Cornwall. Distinguished for his acquaintance with the sciences of Geology & Palaeontology.
ProposersFrom General Knowledge. John Lee LLD; C Babbage.
From Personal Knowledge. Cha Lyell; Hugh Falconer; Rod I Murchison; Andw C Ramsay; John Percy; John Barlow; Charles Manby; James Yates; H W Bristow; C Daubeny; Leonard Horner; J Beete Jukes; B Stewart; D T Ansted
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Pengelly, William: certificate of election to the Royal Society

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CodePersonNameDates
NA2162Pengelly; William (1812 - 1894)1812 - 1894
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