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Geology - Professor Sergei Ivanovich Tomkeieff, Archive

A large collection of booklets, pamphlets and documents forming the private reasearch archive of Professor Sergi Ivanovich Tomkeieff, FRSE FGS, comprising of various box files containing many geological offprints, some with 'Authors compliments written to top edge', covering research on the Giants Causeway, Geological Maps, a number of offprints by G. W. Tyrrell, geology of the Lizard, Cornwall, notes, maps documents and offprints related to Aran, Scotland, Various note books including a handwritten book titled 'An Account of the Appleby Geological Excursion of 1921, James Hutton, with photographs and geological drawings, several boxes of photographs from field trips and geological surveys, lantern slides and other photographs (a lot)

Professor Sergei Ivanovich Tomkeieff FRSE FGS (1892–1968) was a 20th-century Lithuanian geologist and petrologist. He was born on 20 October 1892 in Vilna the capital of Lithuania. He came to Britain either during or just after the First World War and began lecturing in Geology at Anderson College in Newcastle-upon-Tyne in 1920.

In 1948 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His proposers were Arthur Holmes, James Ernest Richey, Sir Edward Battersby Bailey, Heslop Harrison, George Walter Tyrrell, John Weir, and H. B. Donald. In 1957 he became Professor of Petrology at the Anderson College.

He was Author of many books including; The Tholeite Dyke at Cowgate (1953); Coals, Bitumens and other Related Fossil Carbonaceous Substances (1954); Isle of Arran (1961); The Economic Geology of Quarried Materials (1969) Dictionary of Petrology (1983) (posthumous). He was awarded the Geological Society's Lyell Medal in 1966. He died on 27 October 1968 in Newcastle aged 76

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A large collection of booklets, pamphlets and documents forming the private reasearch archive of Professor Sergi Ivanovich Tomkeieff, FRSE FGS, comprising of various box files containing many geological offprints, some with 'Authors compliments written to top edge', covering research on the Giants Causeway, Geological Maps, a number of offprints by G. W. Tyrrell, geology of the Lizard, Cornwall, notes, maps documents and offprints related to Aran, Scotland, Various note books including a handwritten book titled 'An Account of the Appleby Geological Excursion of 1921, James Hutton, with photographs and geological drawings, several boxes of photographs from field trips and geological surveys, lantern slides and other photographs (a lot)

Professor Sergei Ivanovich Tomkeieff FRSE FGS (1892–1968) was a 20th-century Lithuanian geologist and petrologist. He was born on 20 October 1892 in Vilna the capital of Lithuania. He came to Britain either during or just after the First World War and began lecturing in Geology at Anderson College in Newcastle-upon-Tyne in 1920.

In 1948 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His proposers were Arthur Holmes, James Ernest Richey, Sir Edward Battersby Bailey, Heslop Harrison, George Walter Tyrrell, John Weir, and H. B. Donald. In 1957 he became Professor of Petrology at the Anderson College.

He was Author of many books including; The Tholeite Dyke at Cowgate (1953); Coals, Bitumens and other Related Fossil Carbonaceous Substances (1954); Isle of Arran (1961); The Economic Geology of Quarried Materials (1969) Dictionary of Petrology (1983) (posthumous). He was awarded the Geological Society's Lyell Medal in 1966. He died on 27 October 1968 in Newcastle aged 76

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