Major H. J. L. Beadnell
| Autor: | K. S. Sandford |
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| Rok vydání: | 1944 |
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| Zdroj: | Nature. 153:279-280 |
| ISSN: | 1476-4687 0028-0836 |
| DOI: | 10.1038/153279a0 |
| Popis: | HUGH JOHN LLEWELLYN BEADNELL died suddenly on January 2. He was born in 1874 and was educated at Cheltenham College, King's College (London) and the Royal College of Science. He had a long and vigorous career, and his name is linked above all with the geology and water resources of the Libyan Desert. He joined the Geological Survey of Egypt in 1896, and his early work included the geology of the Abu Roash dome near the Pyramids of Giza: soon, however, he was sent westward to the Libyan oases of Farafra, Dakhla, and Baharia, and then to the Faiyum. His report on the last of these was a remarkable achievement, and it provided a solid basis for the specialized work of those who followed more than twenty years later with advantages of transport and equipment which were unheard of in his day. From his Faiyum investigations, moreover, came the discovery, in which C. W. Andrews of the Natural History Museum shared, of the highly important Eocene and Oligocene mammalian remains (Eosiren, Moeritherium, Palaeomastodon, Arsinoitherium and others) which are known to palaeontologists throughout the world. In 1905 he investigated the relations of the Eocene and Cretaceous beds between Esna and Aswan, in Upper Egypt. |
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