GB 0103 MS ADD 152 - Bonney Letters

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GB 0103 MS ADD 152 1885-1920 Collection (fonds) 11 letters Bonney , Thomas George , 1833-1923 , geologist

Thomas Bonney was born in Rugeley on 27 July 1833. He was educated at Uppingham and St John's College Cambridge. In 1857 he was ordained. He was a tutor at St John's College Cambridge from 1868 to 1876. In 1877 he was appointed Yates-Goldsmid Professor of Geology and Mineralogy at University College London, later to become Emeritus Professor of Geology there. He was Whitehall Preacher, 1876-1878. He was President of the Geological Society, 1884-1886. Bonney published books on geology and the history of the planet. He died on 10 December 1923.

W J Sollas was Professor of Geology and Palaeontology at the University of Oxford.

Purchased in May 1952.

Letters from Bonney to W J Sollas.

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English

Collection level description.

University College London Special Collections also holds letters from Bonney concerning University College London business, 1880-1886 (Ref: COLLEGE CORRESPONDENCE), and a letter from Bonney to 'Fitzgerald', 1906 (Ref: MS MISC 4B).

Correspondence and papers of Bonney are also held at the British Library, Manuscript Collections; Lambeth Palace Library; Geological Society of London; Cambridge University Library, Department of Manuscripts and University Archives; Cambridge University, Sedgwick Museum of Geology; Oxford University, Bodleian Library, Special Collections and Western Manuscripts. For further details see the National Register of Archives.

  1999, revised Oct 2001  Bonney , Thomas George , 1833-1923 , geologist Geologists Geology Scientific personnel Scientists Sollas , William Johnson , 1849-1936 , geologist and palaeontologist Personnel People by occupation People

Purchased in May 1952.

Letters from Bonney to W J Sollas.

Open.

Normal copyright restrictions apply.

• English

• Latin

English

University College London Special Collections also holds letters from Bonney concerning University College London business, 1880-1886 (Ref: COLLEGE CORRESPONDENCE), and a letter from Bonney to 'Fitzgerald', 1906 (Ref: MS MISC 4B).

Collection level description.

Correspondence and papers of Bonney are also held at the British Library, Manuscript Collections; Lambeth Palace Library; Geological Society of London; Cambridge University Library, Department of Manuscripts and University Archives; Cambridge University, Sedgwick Museum of Geology; Oxford University, Bodleian Library, Special Collections and Western Manuscripts. For further details see the National Register of Archives.

• English