F. J. North
This article relies largely or entirely on a single source. (July 2021) |
Frederick John North (1889–1968) was a British geologist and museum curator.
He was a lifelong advocate and populariser of geology, and was from 1914–59 Keeper of Geology at the National Museum of Wales. He trained as a palaeontologist, specialising in fossil brachiopods; but from the 1920s, he wrote and spoke broadly about slate, coal, ironstone and limestone. He was a keen historian, cartographer, archaeologist, caver and photographer. He was a founder member of the .[1]
Bibliography[]
- 1937: Humphrey Lhuyd's maps of England and of Wales. National Museum of Wales, Cardiff.
- 1949: Snowdonia (with B. Campbell and ). New Naturalist #13. Collins, London.
References[]
- ^ Marren, Peter (1995). The New Naturalists. HarperCollins. ISBN 978-0002199971.
Categories:
- 1889 births
- 1968 deaths
- 20th-century British geologists
- British cavers
- New Naturalist writers
- Welsh cartographers
- British geologist stubs