Clement Reid
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Clement Reid FRS was a British geologist
and palaeobotanist
.
He was born in London in 1853. His great uncle was Michael Faraday
. His family circumstances meant he was largely self-taught but he was nonetheless able to join the Geological Survey of Great Britain in 1874 and be employed in drawing up geological maps in various parts of the country. In 1894 he was appointed Geologist and in 1901 District Geologist. He retired in 1913.
He was particularly concerned with tertiary
geological deposits and their paleontology.
He was awarded The Murchison Fund
in 1886, won the Bigsby Medal
in 1897 and was vice-president of the Geological Society of London
1913–1914. He was elected a Fellow of the Linnean Society in 1888.
In 1899 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society, his application citation reading: " Geologist in the Geological Survey of England and Wales, and has served on the Staff since 1874. Awarded the Murchison Fund by the Council of the Geological Society in 1886. Has been Secretary and Recorder to the Geological Section of the British Association. Has added largely to our knowledge of the Lower Tertiary formations of the Isle of Wight and Dorset, the Pliocene deposits of Norfolk and the North Downs (including the fauna and flora of the Cromer Forest Bed), and the Glacial Phenomena of Norfolk and Sussex. To aid his researches he has made a special study of recent and fossil seeds (a subject previously much neglected), whereby much light has been thrown on the climate conditions of later Tertiary times, and on the origin of the British flora. Author of Geological Survey memoirs on 'Geology of the Country around Cromer,' 1882; 'Geology of Holderness,' 1885; 'Pliocene Deposits of Britain,' 1890, and revised Tertiary portion of 'Geology of Isle of Wight,' 2nd ed, 1889. Also author of many original papers, including 'Dust and Soils' (Geol Mag, 1884); 'Norfolk Amber' (Trans Norf Nat Soc, 1884); 'Origin of Dry Chalk Valleys' (Quart Journ Geol Soc, 1887); 'Geological History of the Recent Flora of Britain' (Ann Botany, 1888); 'Pleistocene Deposits of Sussex Coast' (Quart Journ Geol Soc, 1892); 'Natural History of Isolated Ponds' (Trans Norf Nat Soc, 1892); 'Desert or Steppe Conditions in Britain' (Nat Science, 1893); 'Eocene Deposits of Dorset' (Quart Journ Geol Soc, 1896); 'Report on Relation of Palaeolithic Man to the Glacial Epoch' (Hoxne Excavation) (Brit Assoc, 1896)"
In 1913 he published his book "Submerged Forests" in which he postulated a drowned land bridge between eastern England and the European mainland. His conceptual map of what is now called "Doggerland
" turned out to be remarkably close to the currently known reality.
He died in Milford-on-Sea, Hampshire in 1916. He had married in St Asaph in 1897 Miss Eleanor Mary Wynne Edwards.
Geology
Geology is the science comprising the study of solid Earth, the rocks of which it is composed, and the processes by which it evolves. Geology gives insight into the history of the Earth, as it provides the primary evidence for plate tectonics, the evolutionary history of life, and past climates...
and palaeobotanist
Paleobotany
Paleobotany, also spelled as palaeobotany , is the branch of paleontology or paleobiology dealing with the recovery and identification of plant remains from geological contexts, and their use for the biological reconstruction of past environments , and both the evolutionary history of plants, with a...
.
He was born in London in 1853. His great uncle was Michael Faraday
Michael Faraday
Michael Faraday, FRS was an English chemist and physicist who contributed to the fields of electromagnetism and electrochemistry....
. His family circumstances meant he was largely self-taught but he was nonetheless able to join the Geological Survey of Great Britain in 1874 and be employed in drawing up geological maps in various parts of the country. In 1894 he was appointed Geologist and in 1901 District Geologist. He retired in 1913.
He was particularly concerned with tertiary
Tertiary
The Tertiary is a deprecated term for a geologic period 65 million to 2.6 million years ago. The Tertiary covered the time span between the superseded Secondary period and the Quaternary...
geological deposits and their paleontology.
He was awarded The Murchison Fund
The Murchison Fund
The Murchison Fund is an award given by the Geological Society of London to researchers under the age of 40 who have contributed substantially to the study of hard rock and tectonic geology. It is named in honour of Prof. Roderick Impey Murchison.-Recipients:...
in 1886, won the Bigsby Medal
Bigsby Medal
The Bigsby Medal is a medal of the Geological Society of London established by John Jeremiah Bigsby. It is awarded for the study of American geology and recipients must be under 45 years of age.-Bigsby Medalists:List of Medallists...
in 1897 and was vice-president of the Geological Society of London
Geological Society of London
The Geological Society of London is a learned society based in the United Kingdom with the aim of "investigating the mineral structure of the Earth"...
1913–1914. He was elected a Fellow of the Linnean Society in 1888.
In 1899 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society, his application citation reading: " Geologist in the Geological Survey of England and Wales, and has served on the Staff since 1874. Awarded the Murchison Fund by the Council of the Geological Society in 1886. Has been Secretary and Recorder to the Geological Section of the British Association. Has added largely to our knowledge of the Lower Tertiary formations of the Isle of Wight and Dorset, the Pliocene deposits of Norfolk and the North Downs (including the fauna and flora of the Cromer Forest Bed), and the Glacial Phenomena of Norfolk and Sussex. To aid his researches he has made a special study of recent and fossil seeds (a subject previously much neglected), whereby much light has been thrown on the climate conditions of later Tertiary times, and on the origin of the British flora. Author of Geological Survey memoirs on 'Geology of the Country around Cromer,' 1882; 'Geology of Holderness,' 1885; 'Pliocene Deposits of Britain,' 1890, and revised Tertiary portion of 'Geology of Isle of Wight,' 2nd ed, 1889. Also author of many original papers, including 'Dust and Soils' (Geol Mag, 1884); 'Norfolk Amber' (Trans Norf Nat Soc, 1884); 'Origin of Dry Chalk Valleys' (Quart Journ Geol Soc, 1887); 'Geological History of the Recent Flora of Britain' (Ann Botany, 1888); 'Pleistocene Deposits of Sussex Coast' (Quart Journ Geol Soc, 1892); 'Natural History of Isolated Ponds' (Trans Norf Nat Soc, 1892); 'Desert or Steppe Conditions in Britain' (Nat Science, 1893); 'Eocene Deposits of Dorset' (Quart Journ Geol Soc, 1896); 'Report on Relation of Palaeolithic Man to the Glacial Epoch' (Hoxne Excavation) (Brit Assoc, 1896)"
In 1913 he published his book "Submerged Forests" in which he postulated a drowned land bridge between eastern England and the European mainland. His conceptual map of what is now called "Doggerland
Doggerland
Doggerland is a name given by archaeologists and geologists to a former landmass in the southern North Sea that connected the island of Great Britain to mainland Europe during and after the last Ice Age, surviving until about 6,500 or 6,200 BCE, though gradually being swallowed by rising sea levels...
" turned out to be remarkably close to the currently known reality.
He died in Milford-on-Sea, Hampshire in 1916. He had married in St Asaph in 1897 Miss Eleanor Mary Wynne Edwards.
External links
- Chrono-Biographical Sketch: Clement Reid at www.wku.edu