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RefNoLC/1943/01
LevelItem
TitleArkell, William Joscelyn
Date06 December 1938
DescriptionCertificate of Candidate for Election to the Fellowship
Suspended 1939, 1940, 1941, 1942, 1943
Lapsed 1943
CitationArkell, William Joscelyn (Oxford). M.A., D.Sc. Senior Research Fellow of New College, Oxford.
Distinguished for his researches on the stratigraphy and palaeontology of the Jurassic System. Author of 'The Jurassic System in Great Britain', Oxford, 1933; Monographs of the Lamellibranchia (1929-37) and Ammonites (1935-) of the English Corallian (Palaeont. Soc.); 'Corallian Rocks of Oxford, Berks and N. Wilts., ' Phil Trans. (1927) and of other papers on Jurassic stratigraphy and palaeontology. Also on 'The Tectonics of the Purbeck and Ridgeway Faults' ; 'Three Tectonic Problems of the Lulworth District' ; 'Analysis of Mesozoic and Cainozoic Folding in England'. With K Sandford, three volumes on palaeolithic man and Pliocene and Pleistocene Geology in Lower, Middle and upper Egypt and Nubia.
ProposersFrom Personal Knowledge: proposer - W K Spencer; Seconder - Hubert L Hawkins; O T Jones, Henry Woods; Arthur SMith Woodward; E B Bailey
Extent1 sheet
FormatManuscript
PhysicalDescriptionPaper, manuscript
AccessStatusOpen
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