| Authorised form of name | Etheridge; Robert (1819 - 1903) |
| Dates | 1819 - 1903 |
| Nationality | British |
| Place of birth | Ross, Herefordshire, England |
| Date of birth | 03 December 1819 |
| Place of death | Chelsea, London |
| Date of death | 18/12/1903 |
| Dates and places | Burial:
Brompton cemetery, Kent |
| Research field | Botany |
| Palaeontology |
| Activity | Education:
Bristol
Career:
In business; Curator of the museum of the Bristol Philosophical Institution (1850); Lecturer in Botany, Bristol Medical School; Assistant Palaeontologist (1857), then Palaeontologist (1863), Geological Survey of Great Britain; Demonstrator upon Palaeontology, Royal School of Mines; Assistant Keeper of Geology, Natural History Museum (1881-1891); listed 18,000 British fossils
Memberships:
FRSE; FGS (President 1880-1882)
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| Membership category | Fellow |
| Date of election | 08/06/1871 |
| Relationships | Elder son of Thomas Etheride and his wife Hannah Pardoe; cousin of John Beddoe (FRS 1873); married three times |
| Sources | Sources:
Bulloch's Roll; DNB
Obituaries:
Proc Roy Soc 1905 vol 75 pp 258-261signed by H B W
Notes:
An early Year Book puts him as being a Vice-President 1874-1875, but this is incorrect - see CM 1884 and 1874. |
| Royal Society code | NA6407 |
| Reference number | Title | Date |
| IM/Maull/001314 | Etheridge, Robert | nd |
| NLB/3/421 | Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Robert Etheridge, Fellow of the Royal Society | 6 June 1889 |
| NLB/16/799 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to R Etheridge, Fellow of the Royal Society | 10 June 1898 |
| NLB/28/34 | Copy letter from Theodore E James, to [Messrs Harrison & Sons] | 22 December 1903 |
| NLB/28/89 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Dr Arthur Smith Woodward, Fellow of the Royal Society | 7 January 1904 |
| RR/7/101 | Referee's report by Robert Etheridge, on a paper 'Obervations on cysticea in the Ottawa district' by Grant | 17 October 1871 |
| RR/7/149 | Referee's report by Robert Etheridge, on a paper 'On the organization of the fossil plants of the coal-measures - Part II. Lycopodiaceae: lepidodendra and sigillariae' by William Crawford Williamson | 22 November 1871 |
| RR/7/150 | Referee's report by Robert Etheridge, on a paper 'On the organization of the fossil plants of the coal-measures - Part II. Lycopodiaceae: lepidodendra and sigillariae' by William Crawford Williamson | 24 November 1871 |
| RR/7/216 | Referee's report by Robert Etheridge, on a paper 'On the organization of the fossil plants of the coal-measures - Part III. Lycopodiaceae (continued)' by William Crawford Williamson | 26 May 1872 |
| RR/7/278 | Referee's report by Robert Etheridge, on a paper 'On the organization of the fossil plants of the coal-measures. Part IV - Dictyoxlon, lyginodendron, and heterangium' by William Crawford Williamson | 8 April 1873 |
| RR/7/257 | Referee's report by Robert Etheridge, on a paper 'Contributions to the study of the errant annelides of the older palaeozoic rocks' by Henry Alleyne Nicholson | 5 November 1873 |
| RR/7/281 | Referee's report by Robert Etheridge, on a paper 'On the organization of the fossil plants of the coal-measures. Part V - Asterophyllites' by William Crawford Williamson | 5 November 1873 |
| RR/9/280 | Referee's report by Robert Etheridge, on a paper 'On beds of sponge-remains in the lower and upper greensand of the South of England' by George Jennings Hinde | 1 August 1885 |
| RR/12/55 | Referee's report by Robert Etheridge, on a paper 'On the structure and affinities of Heliopora coerulea, Pallas. With some observations on the structure of Xenia and Heteroxenia' by Gilbert Charles Bourne | 12 October 1894 |
| RR/7/279 | Referee's report by Robert Etheridge, on an appendix to a paper 'On the organization of the fossil plants of the coal-measures. Part IV - Dictyoxlon, lyginodendron, and heterangium' by William Crawford Williamson | 10 July 1873 |
| RR/12/57 | Letter from Robert Etheridge, to Herbert Rix, regarding a paper 'On the structure and affinities of Heliopora coerulea, Pallas. With some observations on the structure of Xenia and Heteroxenia' by Gilbert Charles Bourne | 19 November 1894 |
| EC/1871/05 | Etheridge, Robert: certificate of election to the Royal Society | |
| NLB/14/446 | Copy letter from Michael Foster, to the Trustees of the Australian Museum, Sydney, New South Wales | 11 March 1897 |
| RR/9/262 | Referee's report by Robert Etheridge, on a paper 'Contributions to the history of the pleiocene and pleistocene deer. Part I. Cervus verticornis, Cervus savini' by William Boyd Dawkins | 25 August 1885 |
| RR/12/56 | Second referee's report by Robert Etheridge, on a paper 'On the structure and affinities of Heliopora coerulea, Pallas. With some observations on the structure of Xenia and Heteroxenia' by Gilbert Charles Bourne | 17 November 1894 |