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Reference numberEC/1891/14
Previous numbersCert XI, 203
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TitleMarr, John Edward: certificate of election to the Royal Society
CitationFellow and Lecturer of St John's College, Cambridge, and University-Lecture in Geology. First Class Nat Sci Tripos, 1878; Sedgwick Prizeman, 1883; Examiner for the Nat Sci Tripos, 1886-1887. Secretary of the Geological Society, 1888. Author of the following: - 'Fossiliferous Cambrian Slates near Carnarvon' (Quart Journ Geol Soc, 1876); 'On Phosphatised Carbonate of Lime at Cave Ha' (Geol Mag, 1876); 'On some well-defined Life-zones in the lower part of the Silurian of the Lake District' (Quart Journ Geol Soc, 1878; 'On the Cambrian and Silurian Rocks of the Dee Valley' (ibid, 1880); 'On the Pre-Devonian Rocks of Bohemia' (ibid, 1880); 'On some Sections of the Lower Palaeozoic Rocks of the Craven District' (Proc Yorks Geol Soc, 1882, and Brit Assoc, 1881); 'The Classification of the Cambrian and Silurian Rocks' (Geol Mag, 1881); 'On the Cambrian and Silurian Rocks of Scandinavia' (Quart Journ Geol Soc, 1882); 'Origin of the Archaean Rocks' (Geol Mag, 1883); 'The Classification of the Cambrian and Silurian Rocks' (Sedgwick Prize Essay, 8vo, Cambridge, 1883); 'The Earth History of the Remote Past compared with that of Recent Times' (8vo, Cambridge, 1886); 'The Lower Palaeozoic Rocks near Settle' (Geol Mag, 1887); 'The Work of Ice Sheets' (ibid); 'Glacial Deposits of Sudbury' (ibid); 'On some Effects of Pressure on the Devonian Sedimentary Rocks of North Devon' (ibid, 1888); 'The Lower Palaeozoic Rocks of the Fichtelgebrige' (ibid, 1889); 'The Metamorphism of the Skiddaw Slates' (Brit Assoc, 1889). Joint-papers: - 'The Lower Palaeozoic Rocks of the Neighbourhood of Haverfordwest' (Quart Journ Geol Soc, 1885); 'The Stockdale Shales' (ibid, 1888).
ProposersFrom Personal Knowledge: T McKenny Hughes; A H Green; W T Blanford; W H Hudleston; John W Judd; T G Bonney; [Warington W Smyth]; Henry Hicks; G D Liveing; Alex Macalister; A G Greenhill; Robt Etheridge; T Rupert Jones; P Martin Duncan; W Whitaker
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Marr, John Edward: certificate of election to the Royal Society

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NA7143Marr; John Edward (1857 - 1933)1857 - 1933
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