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Robert Alfred Cloyne Godwin-Austen

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

Horace B. Woodward
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As Time progresses, Geology, although comparatively a modern Science, yet looks back upon its early and honoured leaders, much in the same way as Art regards its “Old Masters.” Those pioneers have all left us, and, alas! few even of the distinguished men who belong, as it were, to a second generation now remain. Of these, who in their turn have become veterans in the science, we have recently to deplore the loss of Mr. Godwin-Austen.

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Geological Magazine , Volume 2 , Issue 1 , January 1885 , pp. 1 - 10
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1885

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References

page 2 note 1 Report on the Geology of Cornwall, Devon, and West Somerset, 1839. p. 69.

page 2 note 2 Figures and Descriptions of the Palaeozoic Fossils of Cornwall, etc., 1841, p. vi.

page 3 note 1 Sedgwick, and Murchison, , Trans. Geol. Soc. ser. 2, vol v. At p. 651, assistance received from Mr. Austen is acknowledged.Google Scholar

page 3 note 2 Report, pp. 74, 146.

page 4 note 1 Geol Mag. Vol. VII. p. 224.

page 4 note 2 De la Beche, Address to Geol. Soc. 1849, p. 66.

page 5 note 1 We are indebted to the Addresses to the Geological Society of Mr. W. Hopkins, and of Col. J. E. Portlock, 1857, for notices of these papers.

page 5 note 2 Prestwich, Phil. Trans. 1864, p. 249; Lyell, Antiquity of Man, ed. 4, pp. 323, 330.

page 5 note 3 We take these remarks from the Report, by Prof. Prestwich, on the probabilities of finding coal in the South of England, p. 146 (Report Coal Comm. vol. i. 1871).

page 6 note 1 Trans. Roy. Soc. Edin. vol. xxviii. p. 346.

page 6 note 2 It is noted in the Athenaeum (Nov. 29, 1884), that Mr. Austen’s news on this subject had been to some extent foreshadowed by De la Beche: the only passage bearing on the subject, which we have come across in De la Beche’s writings, is that in Mem. Geol. Survey, vol. i. 1846, p. 214. He says, “From the movement of the older rocks many a mass of Coal-measures may be buried beneath the Oolites and Cretaceous rocks on the east, the remains of a great sheet of these accumulations, connecting the districts we have noticed, with those of Central England and of Belgium, rolled about and partially denuded prior to the deposit of the Xew Eed Sandstone.”

page 7 note 1 Address to Geol. Soc. 1858.

page 8 note 1 W. J. Hamilton, Address to Geol. Soc. 1865, p. 33.

page 8 note 2 In this memoir are given in a condensed form the substance of papers Nos. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 9.