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Authorised form of nameBoswell; Percy George Hamnall (1886-1960)
Dates1886-1960
Date of birth07 August 1886
Date of death22/12/1960
ActivityCareer:
Professor of Geology, Liverpool University
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election07/05/1931
SourceSources:
Bulloch's Roll
Obituaries:
Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 1961 vol 7 pp 17-30, plate, by G H Mitchell
CodeNA1791
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IM/GA/WS/1980Boswell, Percy George Hamnell? 1946
MS/811Correspondence and papers on African palaeontology collected by Percy George Hamnall Boswell1932-1937
NLB/52/515Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Percy George Hamnall Boswell Esquire; Imperial College of Science, South Kensington4 January 1916
NLB/52/671Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Percy George Hamnall Boswell Esquire; Imperial College of Science, South Kensington 9 February 1916
RR/64/24Referee's report by Percy George Hamnall Boswell, on a paper 'The geological history of the Lake Rudolf Basin, Kenya colony' by Vivian Ernest Fuchs[[November 1937]
RR/69/244Referee's report by Percy George Hamnall Boswell, on a paper 'Studies of the post-Glacial History of British vegetation VII. Lake sediments: Pollen diagrams from the bottom deposits of the North Basin of Windermere' by Winifred Pennington1946
RR/70/65Referee's report by Percy George Hamnall Boswell, on a paper Studies in the 'Post-glacial history of British vegetation. VIII Swamping surfaces in peats of the Somerset Levels IX. Prehistoric trackways in the Somerset Levels' by Arthur Roy Clapham and Harry Godwin30 August 1947
EC/1931/01Boswell, Percy George Hamnall: certificate of election to the Royal Society
RR/67/191Referee's report by Percy George Hamnall Boswell, on a paper 'Studies of the post-glacial history of British vegetation - III. Fenland polen diagrams - IV. Post-glacial changes of relative land- and sea-level in the English Fenland' by Harry Godwin18 August 1939
RR/66/42Referee's report by Percy George Hamnall Boswell, on a paper 'Seismic investigations on the Palaeozoic floor of east England' by Edward Crisp Bullard, T F Gaskell, W B Harland and C Kerr-Grant[November 1939]
RR/65/103Referee's report by Percy George Hamnall Boswell, on a paper 'Studies of the post-glacial history of British vegetation I. Origin and stratigraphy of Fenland deposits near Wooldwalton, Hunts II. Origin and stratigraphy of deposits in southern Fenland' by Harry Godwin and M H Clifford30 April 1938
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