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SLATER, George (1874-1956)


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0098 KGA SLATER

Held at: Imperial College of Science Technology and Medicine

Title: SLATER, George (1874-1956)

Date(s): Created [1922-1949]

Level of description: Collection (fonds)

Extent: 1 box

Name of creator(s): Slater | George | 1874-1956 | geologist

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Born Sharow, Yorkshire, 1874; educated at St John's College, York and Royal College of Science (later Imperial College); teacher ( Assistant Master), Haltwhistle, Northumberland, 1895-1897; Ipswich, 1897-1918; Demonstrator and Assistant Lecturer in Geology, Imperial College, 1918-1939; Glaciologist to the Oxford University expedition to Spitsbergen, Norway, 1921; awarded the Murcheson Fund by the Geological Society, 1928; Foulerton Award of the Geologists' Association, 1950; died, 1956.
Publications: include: Studies in Glacial Tectonics edited by A K Wells (Edward Stanford, London, 1927).

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Papers of George Slater, [1922-1949], comprising notebooks, containing drawings, photographs, maps, expenses and letters; notes on Leighton Buzzard, 1922, journals of field trips to Rügen, Germany, 1926, Switzerland, 1926, notes of trips to the Rhone Glacier, 1927, Capetown, South Africa, 1929; notes on a book and Geoloogical papers, 1929; reprints of papers, photographs of model glaciers; correspondence, [1925]-1949.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

The records are arranged in sections as outlined above.

Conditions governing access:

Researchers wishing to consult the Archives should first contact the College Archivist, Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, Exhibition Road, London SW7 2AZ, for an appointment.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Conditions governing reproduction: A photocopying service is available at the discretion of the Archivist. Photocopies are supplied for research use only. Requests to publish original material should be submitted to the Archivist.

Physical characteristics:

Finding aids:

A catalogue is available in the reading room of the College Archives.

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information:

Accruals:

Archival history:

Accumulated by Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine during the course of business.

Immediate source of acquisition:

ALLIED MATERIALS

Existence and location of originals:

Existence and location of copies:

Related material:

Records of the Department of Geology (KG) and records relating to the University of London (UL), held at Imperial College.

Publication note:

DESCRIPTION NOTES

Note:

Archivist's note: Sources: Who Was Who (A & C Black, 1961, volume V); British Library On-Line Public Access Catalogue 97. Compiled by Julie Tancell as part of the RSLP AIM25 project.

Rules or conventions: General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal Place and Corporate Names 1997.

Date(s) of descriptions: October 2000


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Drawings | Visual materials
Field work | Research work
Glaciers | Glaciology | Geophysics
Maps | Visual materials
Photographs | Visual materials
Illustrations

Personal names
Slater | George | 1874-1956 | geologist

Corporate names

Places
Cape Town | South Africa | Southern Africa
Leighton Buzzard | Bedfordshire | England | UK | Western Europe | Europe
London | England | UK | Western Europe | Europe
Rügen | Germany | Western Europe | Europe
Switzerland | Western Europe | Europe