Series GB 378 LDGSL/68 - Map and memoir on the geology around Swan River, Western Australia

Large map and manuscript description

GB 378 LDGSL/68 1846 Series Large map and manuscript description Gregory , Francis Thomas , 1821-1888 , surveyor

Gregory , Joshua William , 1815-1850 , explorer 

Brothers Joshua William and Francis Thomas Gregory were two of the five sons (another being Sir August Charles Gregory) born to Joshua Gregory, an army officer from Farnfield, Nottinghamshire. The family emigrated in 1829 after their father, who had been wounded in action, was granted land in the new Swan River Colony in Western Australia in lieu of a pension.

The Swan River Colony, on the Swan River, Western Australia, was a British settlement established in 1829. The area was later named officially as Western Australia after its first governor, Captain James Stirling RN, belatedly received his commission. Stirling served as governor until 1839, when he was succeeded by John Hutt.

Manuscript map 'Geological outlines of the country in the vicinity of the Swan River, Western Australia, compiled at the request of his Excellency John Hutt, Esq' and an accompanying geological memoir with list of fossils by Joshua William Gregory and Francis Thomas Gregory, 1846.

Map and accompanying manuscript were catalogued as two separate items. For descriptive purposes and to make them easier to find, they have been reunited.

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Paper was read before the Society, 17 November 1847 and brief abstract was published as: Gregory, J W and F T Gregory. "Remarks to accompany a Geological Map of Western Australia", 'Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London', vol 4 (1848) p142.

Source: Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Description by Caroline Lam

Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

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Manuscript map 'Geological outlines of the country in the vicinity of the Swan River, Western Australia, compiled at the request of his Excellency John Hutt, Esq' and an accompanying geological memoir with list of fossils by Joshua William Gregory and Francis Thomas Gregory, 1846.

Map and accompanying manuscript were catalogued as two separate items. For descriptive purposes and to make them easier to find, they have been reunited.

Access is by appointment only, daily readership fee is applicable unless you are a member of the Society. Please contact the Archivist for further information.

Copies, subject to copyright and the condition of the original, may be supplied. Requests to publish original material should be submitted to the Archivist.

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English

Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

• English