GB 0100 KCLCA K/PP19 - WHITE, Errol Ivor (1901-1985)

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GB 0100 KCLCA K/PP19 Created 1985 Collection (fonds) 1 volume White , Errol Ivor , 1901-1985 , Geologist
Born 1901; Highgate School (Senior Foundationer); Geology student, King's College London, 1918-1921; BSc, 1921, PhD, 1927, DSc, 1936; entered British Museum (Natural History), 1922; Deputy Keeper of Department of Palaeontology (formerly of Geology) at British Museum, 1938-1955; Keeper of Department of Palaeontology at British Museum, 1955-1966; Honorary Research Fellow, Department of Geology, University of Reading, from 1981; geological expeditions to Madagascar, 1929-1930, and Spitsbergen, 1939; temporary Principal, Ministry of Health, 1940-1945; Honorary Secretary of the Ray Society, 1946-1951, Vice-President, 1951-1954, President, 1956-1959; member of the Council of the Geological Society, 1949-1953, Vice-President, 1957-1960; President, Linnean Society, 1964-1967; member of the Council of the Zoological Society, 1959-1963; Fellow of the Royal Society, 1956; CBE 1960; died 11 January 1985.

Publications: Eocene fishes from Nigeria (London, 1926); The vertebrate faunas of the English eocene (London, 1931); Fossil fishes of Sokoto Province (1934); The vertebrate faunas of the lower old red sandstone of the Welsh Borders. Pteraspis Leathensis White, a dittonian zone-fossil (British Museum, London, 1950); Australian arthrodires (London, 1952); The eocene fishes of Alabama (Paleontological Research Institution, Ithaca, 1956); The old red sandstone of Brown Clee Hill and the adjacent area. II. Palaeontology (London, 1961); The fossil fishes of the terraces of Lake Bosumtwi, Ashanti.

Volume entitled Errol Ivor White, 1901-1985, elected FRS 1956, by Sir James Stubblefield, FRS, (Reprinted from biographical memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society, volume 31, November 1985).

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Copies, subject to the condition of the original, may be supplied for research use only. Requests to publish original material should be submitted to the Director of Archive Services, King's College, London.
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Feb 2000 Biographies Geology Literary forms and genres Literature Prose Royal Society Stubblefield , Sir , Cyril James , b 1901 , Knight , geologist White , Errol Ivor , 1901-1985 , geologist

Volume entitled Errol Ivor White, 1901-1985, elected FRS 1956, by Sir James Stubblefield, FRS, (Reprinted from biographical memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society, volume 31, November 1985).

1 volume

Open, subject to signature of reader's undertaking form.

Copies, subject to the condition of the original, may be supplied for research use only. Requests to publish original material should be submitted to the Director of Archive Services, King's College, London.

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