Catalogue description PAPERS OF PROFESSOR T. MCKENNY HUGHES

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Reference: 689
Title: PAPERS OF PROFESSOR T. MCKENNY HUGHES
Description:

RELATING TO THE CAMBRIDGESHIRE AND ISLE OF ELY CHAMBER OF AGRICULTURE

 

There are 50 items.

Date: 1892-1916
Arrangement:

The scheme used for listing is the standard one of the time, identifying as prefix codes O for official records, which has been used broadly by the service to mean any records deriving from office-holding.

 

Listed by P.C. Saunders March 1981

Held by: Cambridgeshire Archives, not available at The National Archives
Language: English
Creator:

Cambridgeshire and Isle of Ely Chamber of Agriculture

Hughes, T McKenny, fl 1873-1917, Woodwardian Professor of Geology

Physical description: 6 Series
Immediate source of acquisition:

Presented by the Curator of the Sedgwick Museum of Geology November 1974

Administrative / biographical background:

Thomas McKenny Hughes was Woodwardian Professor of Geology from 1873 till his death in 1917 and helped to lay the foundations of modern geological surveys. He was author of the Cambridgeshire volume in the Cambridge County Geographies, and was also a noted archaeologist and twice President of the Cambridge Antiquarian, Society (see Proc. CAS, xxi, 103-4). These papers derive from his membership of the Council of the Cambs & Isle of Ely Chamber of Agriculture, of which he was Vice-Chairman in 1902 and Chairman in 1903-4. The Chamber was evidently founded in 1870, only five years after the Central Chamber modelled on those in France.

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