Photographs issued by the Yorkshire Geological and Polytechnic Society, 1872-1880
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Type of record: Archive
Title: Photographs issued by the Yorkshire Geological and Polytechnic Society, 1872-1880
Classmark: MS 1592
Creator(s): Yorkshire Geological and Polytechnic Society
Date(s): 1872-1880
Language: English
Size and medium: 1 box (12 photographs)
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/7391
Description
Comprises photographs of the following places: (1) Contorted limestone at Draughton, near Skipton, 1872; (2) Limestone quarry at Ray Gill, near Skipton, with cavity containing mammalian remains, 1875 (somewhat faded); (3) Roots of fossil trees, (in situ) lower coal measures, Wadsley, near Sheffield, 1876; (3) Junction of the Silurian rocks with the overlying carboniferous limestone, Moughton Fell, in Ribblesdale, 1877 (somewhat faded); (4) Gordale Scar, January 1879 (torn into two halves); (5) Fissure containing mammalian remains in the mountain limestone at Raygill, in Lothersdale, showing the extent of the exploration in August, 1880 (3 identical copies of each of 2 different exposures taken at different distances from the fissure); (6) Plumpton Rocks, near Knaresborough, 1880
The photograph of Gordale Scar is torn into two halves vertically down the centre
Biography or history
The Yorkshire Geological Society was founded in 1837, and its first President, from 1837-1858, was the Earl of Fitzwilliam. Its name between 1872 and 1877 was the West Riding Geological and Polytechnic Society, and before 1879 became the Yorkshire Geological and Polytechnic Society. Today it is an internationally recognised scientific organisation with an interest in all aspects of geology, with particular reference to the North of England and surrounding areas
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