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Lancashire Pioneers - John Edward Marr

Further Reading

Portrait of John Edward Marr, used with permission from the Cambridgeshire Collection, Cambridge Central Library

Websites with information on John Edward Marr

Oxford dictionary of National Biography entry

Obituaries

MORECAMBE GUARDIAN October 6th 1933

NATURE Magazine November 18th 1933 pages 773-774

TIMES Newspaper October 2nd 1933

OBITUARIES of Fellows of the Royal Society 1932-35 Vol. 1 pages 251-257

Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London Vol. XC 1934

Proceedings of the Geological Association, Vol. XIV, 1934

Further Reading

GEOLOGICAL MAGAZINE, July 1916

Bibliography

The following titles are available in the Local Collection at Lancaster Library, those marked with an asterix are also in the Local Collection at Morecambe Library.

MARR, J.E. Agricultural geology. 
Methuen 1903

MARR, J.E. Cumberland. Pocket Edition. 
C.U.P. 1929

MARR, J.E. Deposition of the sedimentary rocks. 
C.U.P. 1929

MARR, J.E. Geological Pamphlets. 3

MARR, J.E. Geological Pamphlets. 4

MARR, J.E. Geology in relation to scenery. 
‘The National Home-Reading Union Magazine.' pp 13-16, 42-44, 67-69, 93-96, 158-160. Pamphlet no 669.

MARR, J.E. The geology of the Appleby District … [with] notes on the geology of the Vale of Eden' pamphlet no. 1365.

MARR, J.E. The Palaeozoic and Neozoic Times in the Lake District and Neighbourhood.' 
Report from ‘Geology in the Field: the Jubilee Volume of the Geologists Association.' 1910 pp 624-660. Pamphlet no. 1005

MARR, J.E. The geology of the Lake District and the scenery as influenced by geological structure. 
Originally published by Cambridge University Press. 1916. Reprinted by Cedric Chivers Ltd. For the Library Association. 1968*

HANBOOK of the natural history of Cambridgeshire. Edited by J.E. Marr and A.E.Shipley. 
C.U.P. 1904

MARR, J.E. An introduction Geology. 
C.U.P. 1905

MARR, J.E. North Lancashire. 
Cambridge University Press. 1912*

MARR, J.E. The principles of stratigraphical geology. 
C.U.P. 1898

MARR, J.E. The scientific study of scenery. 9th Edition. 
Methuen. 1943

MARR, J.E. Westmorland. (Cambridge County Geographies) 
C.U.P. 1909

Titles available within Lancashire County Libraries

MARR, J.E. North Lancashire. Pocket Edition. 
C.U.P. 1915

BARKER, Ralph. Goodnight, sorry for sinking you. The story of the S.S. City of Cairo
Collins 1984 ISBN 0 00 2164647

Biography

DICTIONARY of National Biography. 1931-1940 edited by L.G. Wickham Legg. 
O.U.P 1949 ISBN 0198652046 pages 600-601

WHO Was Who. Vol. 3: 1929-1940: A companion to Who's Who containing the Biographies of those who died during the period 1929-1940. 
Black. 1941

Local Newspapers

‘A distinguished Morecambrian. Memorial to the late Prof. Marr. Tablet on his birthplace.' 
MORECAMBE AND HEYSHAM VISITOR AND LANCASTER ADVERTISER June 20th 1934

‘Professor John E. Marr. Tablet to be unveiled' 
MORECAMBE GUARDIAN 22nd June 1934

‘The Edifice of Science, A Morecambrian's Contribution. Memorial to Late Prof. Marr unveiled. President of Royal Society visits Morecambe.' 
THE MORECAMBE AND HEYSHAM VISITOR AND LANCASTER ADVERTISER June 27th 1934

‘Distinguished Townsman Honoured, Memorial to Professor John Marr' 
MORECAMBE GUARDIAN Friday 29th June 1934

BOROUGH of Morecambe and Heysham. Parliamentary, Properties and General purposed Committee. 12th December 1933. Minute (608)

BOROUGH of Morecambe and Heysham. Minutes of the Proceedings. Council Meeting 22nd February 1934. Minute (1919)

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