Holmes, Doris L., 1899-
Doris Holmes papers, 1889-1978.
Collection includes family papers and biographical information; personal and professional correspondence; writings on geographical subjects; a collection of geological publications, 1921-1969; photographs (1917-1970), notably of geological field trips, students and professors at Bedford College, and family holidays in Northern Ireland and Sweden; texts of lectures by Eugene Wegmann, Directeur de L'Institut de Geologie Universite de Neuchatel, Switzerland, 1961-1965. Notable correspondents include Leonard Hawkes and Catherine Alice Raisin. Also included are papers and correspondence relating to Arthur Holmes, 1919-1978, relating to his publications, membership in various geological societies, the naming of the Geological Society of Durham after him; his nomination as Regius Professor of Geology at Edinburgh University, and his receipt of the Makdougall-Brisbane and Vetlesen Prizes.
Geologist. Lecturer in Geology and Petrology, Bedford College, University of London, 1927-1933; Lecturer in Petrology, Durham University, 1933-1943; Research Fellow, University of Edinburgh, 1943-1962; Leverhulme Followship to investigate the geology of the Slieve Gullion volcano, 1946-1948; Lyell Medallist, Geological Society, London, 1960; Honorary Research Fellow, Bedford College, University of London from 1962. Died in 1985.
Bedford College -- Faculty.
Geology -- Study and teaching -- Great Britain.
Women geologists -- England.
Hawkes, Leonard, 1891-1981.
Raisin, Catherine Alice, 1920-1960.
Holmes, Arthur, 1890-1965
Wegmann, C. E. (C. Eugene), 1896-
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