| RefNo | EC/1898/09 |
| Previous numbers | Cert XII, 67 |
| Level | Item |
| Title | McMahon, Charles Alexander: certificate of election to the Royal Society |
| Citation | Ex-Commissioner of the Amritsar Division, Punjab. President of the Geologist's Association and Vice-President of the Geological Society of London. Distinguished for his acquaintance with the sciences of Petrology and Geology. He was the first to demonstrate (discover), by study in the field, and with the microscope, the truly granitic origin of the 'Granitoid Gneiss' of the NW Himalaya, thereby affording a conceivable interpretation of the mountain structure. See his numerous papers (23) in the Records of the Geological Survey of India' (1876-1887). Later, General McMahon has contributed much to the elucidation of the structure and origin of crystalline rocks and rock-making minerals, notably in his papers, 'On the Rocks of the Lizard' (Quart Journ Geol Soc, vol xlv, 1889, and conjointly with Prof Bonney, in vol xlvii, 1891); 'On the Dartmoor Granite and its relation to the Surrounding Rocks' (ibid, vol xliv, 1893); 'On Micro-chemical Analysis of Rock-making Minerals' (min Mag, vol x, p 79); and 'On Optical Characters of the Globules and Sperulites of Lithium Phosphate,' &c (ibid, p 229); and numerous minor papers in the Geological Magazine and the Proceedings of the Geologist's Association. |
| Proposers | H B Medlicott; W T Blandford; T G Bonney; L Fletcher; J W Judd; [J T Walker]; Dietrich Brandis; H H Godwin-Austen; H Woodward; J E Marr; Henry H Howorth; R Lydekker; J J H Teall; H G Seeley; E Hull; J Anderson; W Whitaker; Richard Strachey; R Meldola
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| Extent | 1 sheet |
| AccessStatus | Open |
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Fellows associated with this archive
| Code | PersonName | Dates |
| NA3511 | McMahon; Charles Alexander (1830 - 1904) | 1830 - 1904 |