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== Trenham Reeks == | |||
Trenham Reeks - the first Survey librarian. | |||
Reeks was born in 1823. He was appointed Assistant Curator of the Museum of Economic Geology in 1839 and Curator and Librarian in 1851. He was also Registrar of the Royal School of Mines, 1851–1879; he died on 5 May 1879. | |||
His obituary in Nature described: | |||
'the little, rather dingy room in which for well nigh thirty years, he has sat amidst blue-books, calendars, mineralogical specimens, and a rather orderly chaos of miscellaneous objects.' | |||
The collection at BGS contains two letters to Reeks from Charles Darwin | |||
[[Category:Pioneers of the British Geological Survey]] | [[Category:Pioneers of the British Geological Survey]] | ||
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| Date | Details |
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| 1839 | Joined Survey 9th September. |
| Became Registrar of Royal School of Mines. | |
| Handbook on ceramics with De la Beche. | |
| 1851 | Curator of the Museum of practical Geology including the Survey Library. |
| 1879 | Died 5th May. |
Biographies and obituaries
Trenham Reeks. (1879). Geological Magazine, 6(6), 288-288. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0016756800157425
Trenham Reeks . Nature 20, 38–39 (1879). https://doi.org/10.1038/020038a0
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Reeks, Trenham (1823-1879) Geologist
Trenham Reeks
Trenham Reeks - the first Survey librarian.
Reeks was born in 1823. He was appointed Assistant Curator of the Museum of Economic Geology in 1839 and Curator and Librarian in 1851. He was also Registrar of the Royal School of Mines, 1851–1879; he died on 5 May 1879.
His obituary in Nature described:
'the little, rather dingy room in which for well nigh thirty years, he has sat amidst blue-books, calendars, mineralogical specimens, and a rather orderly chaos of miscellaneous objects.'
The collection at BGS contains two letters to Reeks from Charles Darwin