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RefNoEC/1864/12
Previous numbersCert X, 62
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TitleSanders, William: certificate of election to the Royal Society
CitationAuthor of an Essay on certain crystalline forms of Sulphate of Strontian found near Bristol and in Sicily; with a method of drawing precisely the Lines of the figure, 1840;
Author of papers in Reports of the British Association for 1840, 1846, 1849, on Raised Sea Beach near Bristol, on Railway Sections between Bristol & Taunton, and on the age of the Thecodont Saurians;
Author of 'Geological Map of the Bristol district' on the scale of Four Inches to a Mile, in 19 sheets; the whole tract (36 by 30 miles) personally surveyed by the author;
Distinguished for his attainments in Geology, and Mineralogy, & for his zealous efforts to promote these & other branches of Natural Science.
ProposersFrom General Knowledge. Joseph Toynbee.
From Personal Knowledge. Rod I Murchison; John Phillips, Oxford; Andw C Ramsay; W Hopkins; Cha Lyell; J S Bowerbank; T H Huxley; William B Carpenter; Enniskillen; H W Bristow; E W Brayley; Robert Hunt; John Edw Gray
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AccessStatusOpen
RelatedRecordMC/7/38
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Sanders, William: certificate of election to the Royal Society

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NA5806Sanders; William (1799 - 1875)1799 - 1875
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