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RefNoEC/1904/17
Previous numbersCert XII, 197
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TitleWatts, William Whitehead: certificate of election to the Royal Society
CitationAssistant Professor in the University of Birmingham, Late Fellow of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge. Geological Survey of Ireland, 1891-1893, England, 1893-1897. Deputy Professor of Geology, Leeds, 1882, Birmingham, 1883-1884, Oxford, 1888. Secretary of the Geological Society, 1897 to present time. Awarded the Wollaston Fund by the Council of the Geological Society, 1895. President of section C of the British Association 1903. Author of the following and many other papers on geological subjects: - 'The Igneous and Associated Rocks of the Breidden Hills' (Quart Journ Geol Soc, 1885); 'The Corndon Laccolite' (Rep Brit Assoc, 1886); 'The Geology of the Long Mountain' (ibid, 1890); 'Guide to the Rocks and Fossils in the Collection of the Geological Survey in Ireland, 1895,' in conjunction with Mr McHenry; 'Charnwood Forest, a buried Triassic Landscape' (Geogr Journal, 1903). Part Author of several Geological Survey Memoirs.
ProposersJ J H Teall; T G Bonney; John Evans; T McKenny Hughes; A Harker; J E Marr; J Horne; B N Peach; H B Woodward; C Reid; A Strahan; R Kidston; E T Newton; W T Blanford; H Woodward; F H Neville
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Watts, William Whitehead: certificate of election to the Royal Society

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