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The archival paper collections of the Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences, (University of Cambridge) have been the subject of recent cataloguing efforts (2010 - 2012). Within the Archive are 19 notebooks which formerly belonged to Edward B. Tawney (1840 - 1882). These span Tawney's early field investigations of the south-west of England, his work at the Museum in Bristol, and his time in Cambridge up until his death in 1882. Distinctive printed paper labels accompany Tawney's personal fossil collection, now also incorporated into the Sedgwick Museum. Furthermore, some rock slices (thin sections) prepared for Tawney have been identified. Their later treatment in the collection catalogues of the petrologist Alfred Harker provided information on the beginnings of the building of the Petrological Collection at Cambridge. This paper lists the holdings of Tawney's notebooks in the Archive, identifies fossil collections attributed to him and augments our scant knowledge of this important early geological curator. |
