belonging to Professor Sergei Ivanovich Tomkeieff including a large geological map of Scotland in a blue book titled 'Published with Govermnet Authority, Geological Map of Scotland By Sir Archibald Geikie S.Sc LL.D F.R.S, dated 1910, made of 24 plates on canvas backing; a Geological map of Arran dated 1910; Ordanance Survey Drift Edition Geological map dated 1909 reprinted 1956 with another three of Scotland, Barnsley; Geological Maps of Great Britain in two parts prepared by The Geological Survey dated 1948, a Geological Map of the British Islands based on the work of the Geological Survey dated 1939, and others, a lot
Professor Sergei Ivanovich Tomkeieff FRSE FGS (1892–1968) was a 20th-century Lithuanian geologist and petrologist. He was born on 20 October 1892 in Vilna the capital of Lithuania. He came to Britain either during or just after the First World War and began lecturing in Geology at Anderson College in Newcastle-upon-Tyne in 1920.
In 1948 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His proposers were Arthur Holmes, James Ernest Richey, Sir Edward Battersby Bailey, Heslop Harrison, George Walter Tyrrell, John Weir, and H. B. Donald. In 1957 he became Professor of Petrology at the Anderson College.
He was Author of many books including; The Tholeite Dyke at Cowgate (1953); Coals, Bitumens and other Related Fossil Carbonaceous Substances (1954); Isle of Arran (1961); The Economic Geology of Quarried Materials (1969) Dictionary of Petrology (1983) (posthumous). He was awarded the Geological Society's Lyell Medal in 1966. He died on 27 October 1968 in Newcastle aged 76
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belonging to Professor Sergei Ivanovich Tomkeieff including a large geological map of Scotland in a blue book titled 'Published with Govermnet Authority, Geological Map of Scotland By Sir Archibald Geikie S.Sc LL.D F.R.S, dated 1910, made of 24 plates on canvas backing; a Geological map of Arran dated 1910; Ordanance Survey Drift Edition Geological map dated 1909 reprinted 1956 with another three of Scotland, Barnsley; Geological Maps of Great Britain in two parts prepared by The Geological Survey dated 1948, a Geological Map of the British Islands based on the work of the Geological Survey dated 1939, and others, a lot
Professor Sergei Ivanovich Tomkeieff FRSE FGS (1892–1968) was a 20th-century Lithuanian geologist and petrologist. He was born on 20 October 1892 in Vilna the capital of Lithuania. He came to Britain either during or just after the First World War and began lecturing in Geology at Anderson College in Newcastle-upon-Tyne in 1920.
In 1948 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His proposers were Arthur Holmes, James Ernest Richey, Sir Edward Battersby Bailey, Heslop Harrison, George Walter Tyrrell, John Weir, and H. B. Donald. In 1957 he became Professor of Petrology at the Anderson College.
He was Author of many books including; The Tholeite Dyke at Cowgate (1953); Coals, Bitumens and other Related Fossil Carbonaceous Substances (1954); Isle of Arran (1961); The Economic Geology of Quarried Materials (1969) Dictionary of Petrology (1983) (posthumous). He was awarded the Geological Society's Lyell Medal in 1966. He died on 27 October 1968 in Newcastle aged 76
Auction: Fine Photographica & Instruments of Science, 29th Apr, 2021
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