Ref NoGSL/POR/63/5
TitleStaff of the Geological Survey of India
Date[?1870]
Date NoteAccording to the Centenary History of GSI, Ormsby dies in 1870
LevelItem
Extent1 item
FormatPortrait
DescriptionBlack and white, group photograph of the staff of the Geological Survey of India, [?1870]. Sitters' signatures are on mount.

Left to right: Thomas Oldham (seated), Montagu Henry Ormsby (standing at back), William Thomas Blanford (standing), Henry Benedict Medlicott (seated at table), Valentine Ball (seated), Charles A Hacket (standing), Ambrose Tween (seated), Francis Fedden (standing).
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CustodialHistoryCaption on the back gives a suggested date of 1870-1872(?).
ProvenancePresented to the Society by Richard Dixon Oldham. July 1928.
Access ConditionsAccess is by appointment only. Please contact the Archivist for further information.
LanguageEnglish
Publication NoteImage is reproduced in: Auden, J B and P K Ghosh, (eds) Centenary of the Geological Survey of India 1851-1951: a short history of the first hundred years. Calcutta: Geological Survey of India (1951).
ArchNoteDescription by Caroline Lam
Previous referenceP 63/5
Persons
CodePersonNameDates
DS/UK/657OLDHAM; Richard Dixon (1858-1936); geologist and seismologist1858-1936
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