IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 378 LDGSL/68
Held at: Geological Society of London
Title: Map and memoir on the geology around Swan River, Western Australia
Date(s): 1846
Level of description: Series
Extent: Large map and manuscript description
Name of creator(s): Gregory | Francis Thomas | 1821-1888 | surveyor
Gregory | Joshua William | 1815-1850 | explorer
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
Brothers Joshua William and Francis Thomas Gregory were two of the five sons (another being Sir August Charles Gregory) born to Joshua Gregory, an army officer from Farnfield, Nottinghamshire. The family emigrated in 1829 after their father, who had been wounded in action, was granted land in the new Swan River Colony in Western Australia in lieu of a pension.
The Swan River Colony, on the Swan River, Western Australia, was a British settlement established in 1829. The area was later named officially as Western Australia after its first governor, Captain James Stirling RN, belatedly received his commission. Stirling served as governor until 1839, when he was succeeded by John Hutt.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Manuscript map 'Geological outlines of the country in the vicinity of the Swan River, Western Australia, compiled at the request of his Excellency John Hutt, Esq' and an accompanying geological memoir with list of fossils by Joshua William Gregory and Francis Thomas Gregory, 1846.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
Map and accompanying manuscript were catalogued as two separate items. For descriptive purposes and to make them easier to find, they have been reunited.
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Conditions governing reproduction:
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Publication note:
Paper was read before the Society, 17 November 1847 and brief abstract was published as: Gregory, J W and F T Gregory. "Remarks to accompany a Geological Map of Western Australia", 'Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London', vol 4 (1848) p142.
DESCRIPTION NOTES
Archivist's note: Source: Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Description by Caroline Lam
Date(s) of descriptions: July 2012