Joshua Trimmer

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Timeline

Date	Details
1846	Joined Survey.
	Initiated detailed study of distribution of superficial deposits.
1850	Issued “Proposals for a Geological Survey, specially directed to agricultural objects”.
1854	Resigned from Survey.
1857	Died September 16th.

Biographies and obituaries

Portlock (Major-General) Obituary - Joshua Trimmer. [In Anniversary Address.]. Proceedings of the Geological Society in Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society. v. 14 p.xxxii-xxxvi. 1858

Joshua Trimmer — Wikipedia article

Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). Trimmer, Joshua. Encyclopædia Britannica. 27 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.

Bonney, Thomas George (1899). Trimmer, Joshua. In Lee, Sidney (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography. 57. London: Smith, Elder & Co.

Trimmer, Joshua (1795–1857). Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/27739

Publications

Works listed in the BGS Library catalogue

Topley, W. ; Buckland, G. ; Tomson, J. ; Heathorn, R. ; Whitehead, C. ; Way, J.T. ; Paine, J. M. ; Farncombe, J. ; Evershed, H. ; Evershed, S. ; Trimmer, J. ; Topley, W. (1845-1877). Agriculture, south east England. (Survey pamphlet; 18e).

Trimmer, J. ([1852]). The Keythorpe system of land drainage, its principles, efficiency, economy, and opponents : IN: Pamphlets: Agriculture II 1840-54. London : W.P. Metchim.

Trimmer, J. (1853). Notes on the geology of the Keythorpe estate and its relatios to the Keythorpe system of drainage : BOUND IN: Murchison Pamphlets 37 1831-53 English Science. ND IN: Murchison Pamphlets 37 1831-53 English Science (1853).

Trimmer, J. (1845-1877). On the agricultural relations of the western portion of the Hampshire Tertiary district, and on the agricultural importance of the marls of the New Forest. Agriculture, south east England ; Agriculture, south east England / by W. Topley et al.. 1845-1877. p. 125-141 (ca 1855) ; p. 125-141.

Trimmer, J. On the geology of Norfolk as illustrating the laws of the distribution of soils : Reprint from: Journal of the Royal Agricultural Society vii, 1846 p444-482, sections.

Trimmer, J. (1841). Practical geology and mineralogy : with instructions for the qualitative analysis of minerals. London : Parker.

BGS archives

Ref No	Title	Description
GSM/DC/A/C/3/288	A.C. Ramsay: Letters about J. Trimmer.
GSM/DC/A/C/3/288	J. Trimmer: Letters to A.C. Ramsay.
GSM/DC/A/C/4/161, 163, 174, 177, 191	A C Ramsay: Letters about J. Trimmer.
GSM/DC/A/C/4/161, 174, 177	J Trimmer: Letters to A C Ramsay.
GSM/DC/A/C/4/163, 191	Mentioned in letters of H T De la Beche.
GSM/DC/A/C/6/97	J Trimmer: Letter to J.F. Kennedy.
GSM/DC/A/C/6/133	A C Ramsay: Letters about J. Trimmer.
GSM/DC/A/C/6/133	J Trimmer: Letters to A C Ramsay.
GSM/GL/Tr	J.Trimmer	Trimmer was one of the first staff of the Survey, joining in 1846.
GSM/GL/Tr/3	Proposals by Trimmer for a geological survey specially directed to agricultural objectives.