Record

CodePX5557
Dates1853-1916
Person NameReid; Clement (1853-1916); Geologist
SurnameReid
ForenamesClement
EpithetGeologist
Activity As the result of family circumstances Reid was unable to get much of a formal education, but this didn't slow him down for long. After studying in his spare time and joining the Geological Survey in 1874 he was employed in mapping one district after another for many years; this experience gave him a broad knowledge of the country's geology and he soon became regarded as one of the foremost experts of his time on British geology and paleobotany. His most intensive studies were on late Tertiary units, and by association the study of fossil seeds and pollen, and paleolithic evidences of humankind. Reid's wife Eleanor was his co-author on many projects.

Appointed an officer of Her Majesty's Geological Survey 1874 - 1913. Elected a fellow of the Geological Society 1875. Receives the Murchison fund from the Society 1886. Fellow of the Linnean Society 1888. Receives the Bigsby medal of the Geological Society 1897. Made a fellow of the Royal Society 1899. Appointed district Geologist 1901. Makes visit to Cyprus to advise on the use of water resources 1908. Vice-President of the Geological Society 1913 - 1914.
Catalogue
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WP/15/1Mitten Papers: Correspondence 
WP/15/2/12Reid, Clement, 'The Eocene deposits of Devon' 
WP/1/2/49Alfred Russel Wallace to Violet Wallace, from Parkstone, Dorset  
WP/15/2/1Reid, Clement, 'On the natural history of isolated ponds' 
WP/15/2/6Reid, Clement, 'The early Neolithic kitchen-midden and tufaceous deposit at Blashenwell, near Corfe Castle' 
WP/1/2/40Alfred Russel Wallace to Violet Wallace, from Parkstone, Dorset  
WP/15/2/7Sir John Evans, Miss E Morse, Clement Reid, E P Ridley and H N Ridley, 'The relation of Palaeolithic man to the Glacial epoch...' 
WP/1/2/53Alfred Russel Wallace to Violet Wallace, from Parkstone, Dorset  
WP/1/2/54Alfred Russel Wallace to Violet Wallace, from Parkstone, Dorset  
WP/15/2Mitten papers: Print 
WP/1/8/264Alfred Russel Wallace to Clement Reid from Parkstone, Dorset 
WP/1/8/268Alfred Russel Wallace to Clement Reid from Parkstone, Dorset 
WP/1/8/273Alfred Russel Wallace to Clement Reid from Parkstone, Dorset 
WP/15/2/5Reid, Clement, 'On charred pine-wood from Dorset peat mosses' 
WP/15/2/10Reid, Clement, 'The Palaeolithic deposits at Hitchin and their relation to the glacial epoch' 
WP/15/2/3Reid, Clement, 'A fossiliferous pleistocene deposit at Stone, on the Hampshire coast' 
WP/15/2/8Reid, Clement 'The Eocene deposits of Dorset' 
WP/16/1/132Clement Reid to William Greenell Wallace 
DF/BOT/404/1/6/47Reid, Clement 
DF/PAL/100/62/71Reid, C 
WP/15/2/2Reid, Clement, 'On the Pleistocene deposits of the Sussex coast'  
WP/15/2/11Reid, Clement, 'Pleistocene plants from Casewick, Shacklewell, and Grays' 
WP/1/2/57Alfred Russel Wallace to Violet Wallace, from Parkstone, Dorset  
WP/1/2/52Alfred Russel Wallace to Violet Wallace, from Parkstone, Dorset  
WP/15/2/9Reid, Clement, 'Supplementary note (February, 1897) on the worked-flints from Blashenwell, near Corfe Castle' 
WP/15/1/4Clement Reid to William Mitten 
WP/1/8/265Alfred Russel Wallace to Clement Reid from Parkstone, Dorset 
WP/1/8/267Alfred Russel Wallace to Clement Reid from Parkstone, Dorset 
WP/1/8/276Alfred Russel Wallace to Clement Reid from Parkstone, Dorset 
DF/BOT/404/9/12/3Correspondence: K-R 
WP/15/2/4Reid, Clement, 'The origin of Megaceros-Marl' 
WP/15Papers of William Mitten 
DF/PAL/100/62/72Reid, C 
WP/15/2/13Reid, Clement, 'Further contributions to the geological history of the British flora' 
DF/BOT/404/9/9/1Correspondence: A-V 
WP/1/1/69Letter from Alfred Russel Wallace to his son William Wallace, from Broadstone, Dorset 
WP/1/2/110Alfred Russel Wallace to Violet Wallace in Switzerland, from Parkstone, Dorset 
WP/1/8/266Alfred Russel Wallace to Clement Reid from Parkstone, Dorset 
WP/1/8/269Alfred Russel Wallace to Clement Reid from Parkstone, Dorset 
WP/1/8/270Alfred Russel Wallace to Clement Reid from Parkstone, Dorset 
WP/1/8/271Alfred Russel Wallace to Clement Reid from Parkstone, Dorset 
WP/1/8/272Alfred Russel Wallace to Clement Reid from Parkstone, Dorset 
WP/1/8/274Alfred Russel Wallace to Clement Reid from Parkstone, Dorset 
WP/1/8/275Alfred Russel Wallace to Clement Reid from Parkstone, Dorset 
WP/1/8/277Alfred Russel Wallace to Clement Reid from Old Orchard, Broadstone, Wimborne 
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