| Authorised form of name | Ramsay; Sir; Andrew Crombie (1814 - 1891) |
| Dates | 1814 - 1891 |
| Nationality | British |
| Place of birth | Glasgow, Scotland |
| Date of birth | 31 January 1814 |
| Place of death | Beaumaris, Anglesey, Gwynedd |
| Date of death | 09 December 1891 |
| DatesAndPlaces | Burial:
Llansadwrn churchyard, Anglesey, Gwynedd |
| Research field | Geology |
| Activity | Career:
Director, Geological Survey of Great Britain (1841); Professor of Geology in University College, London (1848); Professor, School of Mines, London (1851)
Honours:
Kt 1881
Memberships:
FGS
|
| Membership category | Fellow |
| Date of election | 07/06/1849 |
| RSActivity | Royal Society roles:
VP 1873-1874
Medals and prizes:
Royal Medal 1879 |
| Relationships | Uncle of Sir William Ramsay (FRS 1888); married Mary Louisa, daughter of Rev Chancellor Williams, of Llanfairynghornwy, Anglesey |
| Source | Sources:
Bulloch's Roll; DNB; DSB |
| Virtual International Authority File | http://viaf.org/viaf/113145857827123020154 |
| Code | NA3762 |
| RefNo | Title | Date |
| IM/003734 | Ramsey, Sir Andrew Crombie | nd |
| EC/1849/11 | Ramsay, Sir Andrew Crombie: certificate of election to the Royal Society | |
| IM/Maull/003733 | Ramsay, Sir Andrew Crombie | nd |
| NLB/5/1034 | Copy letter from Theodore E James, to Messrs Harrison & Sons | 14 December 1891 |
| NLB/8/737 | Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Sir Archibald Geikie, Fellow of the Royal Society | 15 December 1893 |
| MS/517/8 | 'Report of the floating pumice observed in the Indian Ocean in 1883 and 1884' [following the Krakatoa eruption] by A Ramsay | c1884 |
| MS/427/2 | Copy letter from [George Gabriel] Stokes, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Lieut Gen. [Henry Frederick] Ponsonby | 6 November 1879 |
| RR/7/360 | Referee's report by Andrew Crombie Ramsay, on an unnamed paper by Bell | 15 June 1875 |
| RR/7/336 | Referee's report by John Phillips, on a paper 'On the comparative value of certain geological ages (or groups of formations) considered as items of geological time' by Andrew Crombie Ramsay | 26 March 1874 |
| RR/7/187 | Referee's report by Andrew Crombie Ramsay, on a paper 'Volcanic energy: an attempt to develop its true origin and cosmical relations' by Robert Mallet | 1872 |
| RR/7/104 | Referee's report by Andrew Crombie Ramsay, on a paper 'On the extension of the coal-fields beneath the newer formations of England; and the succession of physical changes whereby the coal-measures have been reduced to their present dimensions' by Edward Hull | 21 January 1871 |
| RR/7/388 | Referee's report by Andrew Crombie Ramsay on a paper 'On the origin and mechanism of production of the prismatic (or columnar) structure of basalt' by Robert Mallet | 17 June 1875 |
| MC/4/290 | Letter from Andrew [Crombie] Ramsay, Llanberis, Caernafon, to [Charles Richard] Weld, [Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society] | 22 June 1849 |
| RR/5/207 | Referee's report by Andrew Crombie Ramsay, on a paper 'Theoretical considerations on the conditions under which the (drift) deposits containing the remains of extinct mammalia and flint implements were accumulated, and on their geological age. - On the Loess of the valleys of the South of England, and of the Somme and the Seine' by Joseph Prestwich | 3 July 1863 |
| RR/6/20 | Referee's report by Andrew Crombie Ramsay, on a paper 'A brief account of the 'Thesaurus Siluricus,' with a few facts and inferences' by John Jeremiah Bigsby | 6 February 1867 |
| MC/4 | Volume 4 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society | 1844-1850 |
| MC/6/228 | Letter from Andw [Andrew] Ramsay, President of the Geological Society of London, Somerset House, to [Sir Edward Sabine], President of the Royal Society and to the Council | 4 June 1862 |
| MC/6 | Volume 6 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society | 1859-1863 |
| AP/50/12 | Unpublished paper, 'Notes on the chemical geology of the gold fields of California' by J [John] Arthur Phillips | 1868 |
| RR/6/98 | Referee's report by Andrew Crombie Ramsay, on a paper 'Ovibos moschatus (Blainville)' by William Boyd Dawkins | 28 November 1867 |
| RR/7/337 | Referee's report by Robert Alfred Cloyne Godwin Austen, on a paper 'On the comparative value of certain geological ages (or groups of formations) considered as items of geological time' by Andrew Crombie Ramsay | 1874 |
| AP/55/12/1 | Unpublished manuscript, 'Contributions to the study of the errant annelides [annelids] of the older Palaeozoic rocks' by H [Henry] Alleyne Nicholson | 1872 |
| AP/55/12 | Unpublished paper, 'Contributions to the study of the errant annelides [annelids] of the older Palaeozoic rocks' by H [Henry] Alleyne Nicholson | 1872 |
| AP/60/14 | Unpublished paper, 'Limestone as an index of geological time' by T M [Thomas Mellard] Reade | 1878 |
| RR/5/20 | Referee's report by Andrew Crombie Ramsay, on a paper 'A description of some fossil plants, showing, found in the lower coal-seams of Lancashire and Yorkshire' by Edward William Binney | 26 July 1865 |
| RR/7/325 | Referee's report by Andrew Crombie Ramsay, on a paper 'Addition to the paper on 'Volcanic energy: an attempt to develop its true origin and cosmical relations' by Robert Mallet | 16 June 1874 |
| MS/516/6/12 | Letter from S. Waymouth, Orient Steam Navigation Company Limited, Fenchurch Avenue, London, to [Sir Andrew Crombie] Ramsay, Secretary to the [Royal Society] Krakatoa Committee | 16 February 1884 |