George William Lamplugh

George William Lamplugh (8 April 1859 – 9 October 1926) was a British geologist.^[1] He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1905 and won the Wollaston Medal of the Geological Society in 1925.^[2] He was awarded the Bigsby Medal in 1901. ^[3]

Lamplugh and the Isle of Man[edit]

Working between 1892 and 1897, Lamplugh made the first official geological map of the Isle of Man under the auspices of the British Geological Survey.^[1] His original observations and field maps are kept at the British Geological Survey in Edinburgh. Hand-painted 'clean' copies of his map sheets are housed at the Manx Museum on the Isle of Man.^[4]

References[edit]

^ ^a ^b "George William Lamplugh F.R.S." British Geological Survey. Retrieved 18 June 2017.
^ "Wollaston Medal Winners". Geological Society of London. Archived from the original on 31 August 2010. Retrieved 2 February 2011.
^ "Bigsby Medal". Geological Society of London. Retrieved 8 April 2015.
^ Woodcock, N. H. (1999). In sight of the suture: the paleozoic geology of the Isle of Man in its Iapetus ocean context. London: Geological Society of London. ISBN 1862390460. OCLC 718175402.

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v t e Fellows of the Royal Society elected in 1905
Fellows	John George Adami William Arthur Bone John Edward Campbell William Henry Dines Sir Arthur Mostyn Field Sir Martin Onslow Forster Edwin Stephen Goodrich Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins George William Lamplugh Ernest William MacBride Francis Wall Oliver Sir David Prain George Frederick Charles Searle Robert John Strutt, 4th Baron Rayleigh Sir Edmund Taylor Whittaker
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