| Administrative History | A resolution of Council on 18 January 1832, awarded one year's dividend of the Wollaston Fund to the William Lonsdale for continuing a survey of oolitic districts from the neighbourhood of Bath, where Lonsdale resided, to the southern limits of Warwickshire and Oxfordshire. In 1836 he continued the survey northwards, eventually finishing at the River Humber.
Although the maps were created primarily to show the distribution of oolitic limestone in the south-west and central counties of England, other geology is recorded. |
| Publication Note | Reference to the maps is given in: Woodward, H B. 'History of the Geological Society of London', London: Longmans, Green & Co, 1908, p103; see also 'Proceedings of the Geological Society of London', vol 1, pp 52, 413, 423, 446 & vol 4, p67; for Lonsdale's original oolitic survey of Bath which led to his Wollaston Fund award, see: Lonsdale, W. "On the Oolitic District of Bath", 'Transactions of the Geological Society of London', 2nd series, vol 3 (1832) pp241-276. |