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John Edward Marr
John Edward Marr FGS FRS (14 June 1857 – 1 October 1933) was a British geologist. After studying at Lancaster Royal Grammar School, he matriculated to St John's College, Cambridge, graduating with First Class Honours in 1878. Following undergraduate work in the Lake District, he travelled to Bohemia to investigate the fossil collection of Joachim Barrande, where his work won him the Sedgwick Prize in 1882. In 1886, Marr became lecturer at the University of Cambridge Department of Geology, a position he held for 32 years until he succeeded Thomas McKenny Hughes as Woodwardian Professor of Geology in 1917. Early life and education Marr was born in Poulton-le-Sands on 14 June 1857 to John Marr, a retired silk merchant, and his wife Mary Simpson. After the family stayed in Caernarfon in 1863, Marr became interested in geology, having discovered a fossil which was named after him. From 1867 to 1875 he studied at the Lancaster Royal Grammar School, where he met R. H. Tiddeman, who ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Poulton-le-Sands
Poulton-le-Sands is one of three small villages that combined to create Morecambe, Lancashire, England, the other two being Torrisholme and Bare, Morecambe, Bare. A local board of health was established in 1852, which, taking its name from Morecambe Bay, became the borough of Morecambe in 1902. Poulton is known locally for its many murals which depict the origin of Poulton as a fishing village. Artist Patricia Haskey-Knowles completed several of these in the Morecambe Bay area. Poulton was first mentioned in the Domesday Book as ''Poltune''. It later became Poulton and remained this way for a number of centuries. The name 'Poulton' is likely a combination of Old English ''pull'' or ''pōl'', meaning 'pool' and ''tūn'' meaning 'farmstead'. It was towards the end of the eighteenth or the beginning of the nineteenth century that the ''Le-Sands'' was added. This was to distinguish it from another Poulton located near Blackpool which is now Poulton-le-Fylde. References ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Exhibition (scholarship)
An exhibition is a type of scholarship award or bursary. United Kingdom and Ireland At the universities of Dublin, Oxford, Cambridge and Sheffield, at some public schools, and various other UK educational establishments, an exhibition is a small financial award or grant to an individual student, normally on grounds of merit or demonstrable necessity. At Oxford and Cambridge, for example, it is typical to be awarded an exhibition for near-first-class performance in examinations; the Sheffield's "Petrie Watson Exhibition" is a grant awarded for projects which enhance or complement a current programme of study. Faculty of Arts and Humanities, University of Sheffield. Retrieved 22 January 2020 The amount is typically less than a scholarship that covers tuition fees and/or maintenance. In 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cambridge County Geographies
Cambridge County Geographies is a book series published by Cambridge University Press. Volumes * Aberdeenshire by Mackie, Alexander * Argyllshire and Buteshire by MacNair, Peter (wikisource) * Ayrshire by Foster, John * Banffshire by Barclay, W. *Bedfordshire by Chambers, C. Gore * Berkshire by Monckton, H. W. (wikisource) *Berwickshire and Roxburghshire by Crockett, W. S. (wikisource) *Breconshire by Evans, Christopher J. (wikisource) * Buckinghamshire by Morley Davies, A. *Caithness and Sutherland by Campbell, H. F. *Cambridgeshire by McKenny Hughes, T. * Carnarvonshire by Lloyd, J. E. * Cheshire by Coward, T. A. *Clackmannan and Kinross by Day, J. P. *Cornwall by Baring-Gould, S. * Cumberland by Marr, J. E. *Derbyshire by Arnold-Bemrose, H. H. (wikisource) *Devonshire by Knight, Francis A. and Knight Dutton, Louie M. *Dorset by Salmon, Arthur L. *Dumbartonshire by Mort, F. (wikisource) *Dumfriesshire by Hewison, James K. *Durham by Weston, W. J. * East London by Bosworth, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Royal Society Of Edinburgh
The Royal Society of Edinburgh is Scotland's national academy of science and letters. It is a registered charity that operates on a wholly independent and non-partisan basis and provides public benefit throughout Scotland. It was established in 1783. , there are around 1,800 Fellows. The Society covers a broader selection of fields than the Royal Society of London, including literature and history. Fellowship includes people from a wide range of disciplines – science & technology, arts, humanities, medicine, social science, business, and public service. History At the start of the 18th century, Edinburgh's intellectual climate fostered many clubs and societies (see Scottish Enlightenment). Though there were several that treated the arts, sciences and medicine, the most prestigious was the Society for the Improvement of Medical Knowledge, commonly referred to as the Medical Society of Edinburgh, co-founded by the mathematician Colin Maclaurin in 1731. Maclaurin was unhappy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cambridge
Cambridge ( ) is a university city and the county town in Cambridgeshire, England. It is located on the River Cam approximately north of London. As of the 2021 United Kingdom census, the population of Cambridge was 145,700. Cambridge became an important trading centre during the Roman and Viking ages, and there is archaeological evidence of settlement in the area as early as the Bronze Age. The first town charters were granted in the 12th century, although modern city status was not officially conferred until 1951. The city is most famous as the home of the University of Cambridge, which was founded in 1209 and consistently ranks among the best universities in the world. The buildings of the university include King's College Chapel, Cavendish Laboratory, and the Cambridge University Library, one of the largest legal deposit libraries in the world. The city's skyline is dominated by several college buildings, along with the spire of the Our Lady and the English Martyrs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lag Fault
Lag, or similar, may refer to: Lag * Łąg, Poland * Lag (company), a French guitar maker * Lag (cue sports), a brief pre-game competition to determine which player will go first * Latency (engineering), a slower response time in computing, communications, and engineering * Lag (video games), a slower response time in video gaming * Lag screw or lag bolt * Jet lag * Turbo lag * A very long putt in golf * British slang for inmate in a prison (usually "old lag") * The time between tasks in project plans; see * The time before a medical diagnosis * A measure for spatial dependence in a sampling variogram * A delay of payment to take advantage of an expected change in exchange rates; see Leads and lags LAG * LAG Motorcoach, a Belgian bus and trailer manufacturer * La Grange Road station (Amtrak station code: LAG) * Lancaster Gate tube station (London Underground station code: LAG) * Latin America Solidarity Organisation in Norway (''Latin-Amerika gruppene i Norge'') * Ligue d'Athlét ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shap
Shap is a linear village and civil parish located among fells and isolated dales in Eden district, Cumbria, England, in the historic county of Westmorland. The parish had a population of 1,221 in 2001, increasing slightly to 1,264 at the 2011 Census. Location The village lies along the A6 road and the West Coast Main Line, and is near to the M6 motorway. It is situated from Penrith and about from Kendal. Shap is on the route of the Coast to Coast Walk. Etymology Early (12th and 13th century) forms such as ''Hep'' and ''Yheppe'' point to an Old Norse rendering ''Hjáp'' of an Old English original ''Hēap'' = "heap", (of stones), probably referring to an ancient stone circle, cairn, or to the Shap Stone Avenue just to the west of the village. History Although Shap is geographically a small village, it is legally a market town with a charter dating from the 17th century. The parish was, between 1905 and 1935, administered by an urban district council. At one time, the grani ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alfred Harker (petrologist)
Alfred Harker FRS (19 February 1859 – 28 July 1939) was an English geologist who specialised in petrology and interpretive petrography. He was Lecturer in Petrology at the University of Cambridge for many years, and carried out field mapping for the Geological Survey of Scotland and geological studies of western Scotland and the Isle of Skye. He and other British geologists pioneered the use of thin sections and the petrographic microscope in interpretive petrology. Education and career Harker's father was the Yorkshire corn merchant Portas Hewart Harker, his mother Ellen Mary Harker. He attended Hull and East Riding College, and the private Clewer House School (Windsor) before enrolling as an undergraduate at St. John's College (Cambridge) from where he graduated with an M.A. on 18 January 1882. Whilst at Cambridge he was an early member of the Sedgwick Club. In 1884 he held the post of Demonstrator in the Geology Department under Thomas McKenny Hughes (whom he regar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Alleyne Nicholson
Henry Alleyne Nicholson FRS FRSE FGS FLS (11 September 1844 – 19 January 1899) was a British palaeontologist and zoologist. Life The son of John Nicholson (1809–1886), a biblical scholar, and his wife Annie Elizabeth Waring, he was born at Penrith, Cumberland on 11 September 1844. His younger sister was the writer Annie Elizabeth Nicholson Ireland, and one of his brothers was John Henry Nicholson, author and poet. He was educated at Appleby Grammar School and then studied Sciences at the universities of Göttingen (Ph.D., 1866) and Edinburgh (D.Sc., 1867; M.D., 1869). Geology had early attracted his attention, and his first publication was a thesis for his D.Sc. degree titled ''On the Geology of Cumberland and Westmoreland'' (1868). In 1869 he began lecturing in Natural History at the extramural classes linked to Edinburgh University. In 1871 he was appointed professor of natural history in the University of Toronto; in 1874 professor of biology in the Durham College ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lake District
The Lake District, also known as the Lakes or Lakeland, is a mountainous region in North West England. A popular holiday destination, it is famous for its lakes, forests, and mountains (or ''fells''), and its associations with William Wordsworth and other Lake Poets and also with Beatrix Potter and John Ruskin. The Lake District National Park was established in 1951 and covers an area of . It was designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2017. The Lake District is today completely within Cumbria, a county and administrative unit created in 1974 by the Local Government Act 1972. However, it was historically divided between three English counties ( Cumberland, Westmorland and Lancashire), sometimes referred to as the Lakes Counties. The three counties met at the Three Shire Stone on Wrynose Pass in the southern fells west of Ambleside. All the land in England higher than above sea level lies within the National Park, including Scafell Pike, the highest mountain in England. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Palaeozoic
The Paleozoic (or Palaeozoic) Era is the earliest of three geologic eras of the Phanerozoic Eon. The name ''Paleozoic'' ( ;) was coined by the British geologist Adam Sedgwick in 1838 by combining the Greek words ''palaiós'' (, "old") and ''zōḗ'' (), "life", meaning "ancient life" ). It is the longest of the Phanerozoic eras, lasting from , and is subdivided into six geologic periods (from oldest to youngest): # Cambrian # Ordovician # Silurian # Devonian # Carboniferous # Permian The Paleozoic comes after the Neoproterozoic Era of the Proterozoic Eon and is followed by the Mesozoic Era. The Paleozoic was a time of dramatic geological, climatic, and evolutionary change. The Cambrian witnessed the most rapid and widespread diversification of life in Earth's history, known as the Cambrian explosion, in which most modern phyla first appeared. Arthropods, molluscs, fish, amphibians, reptiles, and synapsids all evolved during the Paleozoic. Life began in the ocean but eve ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sedgwick Club
The Sedgwick Club is the official student geological society at the University of Cambridge, and is the oldest student-run geological society in the world. It aims to promote the subject of geology among its members through regular talks and social events. It is based in the Department of Earth Sciences. History The club was founded in honour of Adam Sedgwick in 1880. Almost every year after its foundation the Sedgwick Club ran yearly field excursions. Sets of notes, photos, sketches, maps and diagrams from these are kept in the Conservation Laboratories of the Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences. This annual field trip has been replaced by the "Magical Mystery Tour" in modern times, which involves a weekend excursion at the beginning of Lent term to a location unknown to all on the tour except the club committee members. Careful minutes and accounts were taken throughout the whole history of the Club, which have also survived and are held in The Sedgwick Museum. Women members ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
