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SUMMARY:Detecting Harker's Times and Travels: new insights from the Sedgwi
 ck Museum Archive - Dr Lyall I. Anderson (Sedgwick Museum of Earth Science
 s)
DTSTART:20111025T180000Z
DTEND:20111025T184500Z
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CONTACT:Dr Lyall I. Anderson
DESCRIPTION:Using the documents held in the Sedgwick Museum Archive\, new 
 insights into the famous petrologist Alfred Harker (1859 – 1939) have be
 en made. His meticulously kept otebooks chart his development as a geologi
 st from undergraduate days at St. John's College\, his work as a Demonstra
 tor to the Woodwardian Professor Thomas McKenny-Hughes\, his part-time map
 ping work on Skye for the Geological Survey of Scotland and through to his
  retirement and pleasure cruises around the West coast of Scotland in the 
 1920's and 30's.\n\nThis work is funded by the ‘Friends of the Sedgwick 
 Museum’ and is part of a much larger project to document and make access
 ible these geological archive materials.\n
LOCATION:Bullard Laboratories\, Madingley Road
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