Guide to the Letters of Thomas Mellard Reade (as filmed by the AJCP), 1883-1906

 

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Summary

Collection number:
M832
Creator:
Reade, Thomas Mellard
Extent:
16 items
Language:
English
Preferred citation:

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Items from this collection should include references to the location of the original material and to the AJCP nla.obj number, which serves as the online identifier for the digital copy.

Example: M Series: Journal of Capt. James Cook, 18 February 1770, British Library Add. MS 27885 (AJCP ref: http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-1234)

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Background

Content Summary:
16 letters written to T.M. Reade by J. Anderson and others concerning laying of the cable from Java to Australia for the Eastern Telegraph Co Ltd, from H.B. Guppy concerning the geology of New Zealand and the Solomon Islands, and from J.M. Maclaren concerning submarine ridges in the Pacific and his geological work in New Zealand.
Biographical / Historical:

Thomas Mellard Reade (1832-1909) was born in and spent most of his life in Liverpool. From 1844 to 1849 he was a pupil in a firm of architects and surveyors and he subsequently worked as a draughtsman and engineer in the London and North Western Railway. He commenced private practice as an architect and surveyor in Liverpool in 1859 and for many years was the architect to the Liverpool School Board. He was made a Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects in 1878. In 1870 Reade commenced a long series of articles on geological subjects which he continued right up to his death. He was elected a Fellow of the Geological Society in 1872 and was awarded its Murchison Medal in 1896. He was President of the Liverpool Geological Society in 1875-77, 1884-86 and 1895-97. He was the author of The origin of mountain ranges (1886) and The evolution of earth structure (1903).

Sir James Anderson (1824-183) was the captain of SS Great Eastern when it laid the transatlantic telegraph cable in 1865-66. In 1872 John Pender formed the Eastern Telegraph Company, with Anderson as managing director.

Osmond Fisher (1817-1914) was an Anglican clergyman with a strong interest in geology and geophysics. He was the author of The physics of the earth's crust (1881).

Henry Brougham Guppy (1854-1926) was a surgeon in the Royal Navy from 1876 to 1885 and served on HMS Lark when it visited the Solomon Islands in 1882. He was the author of The Solomon Islands and their natives (1887) and The Solomon Islands: their geology, general features and suitability for colonization (1887). He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1888. He returned to the Pacific in 1896 and his researches in the islands led to the publication of Observations of a naturalist in the Pacific between 1896 and 1899 (1903).

James Malcolm Maclaren (1873-1935) was born in Thames, New Zealand, and educated at the University of Auckland and the Royal College of Mines in London. He worked for the Geological Survey of Queensland and the Geological Survey of India. From 1906 onwards he was a consulting mining geologist, mostly associated with the Goldfields Group, and travelled all over the world. He was the author of Gold: its geological occurrence and geographical distribution (1908).

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Conditions Governing Use:
Many of the records digitised as part of the AJCP are still in copyright. Readers wishing to publish or reproduce documents should seek permission, in the first instance, from the owner of the original material.
Preferred citation:

Acknowledgement of use of this material should refer to the location of the original material and to the Australian Joint Copying Project.

Items from this collection should include references to the location of the original material and to the AJCP nla.obj number, which serves as the online identifier for the digital copy.

Example: M Series: Journal of Capt. James Cook, 18 February 1770, British Library Add. MS 27885 (AJCP ref: http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-1234)

Location of this collection:
Parkes Place
Canberra ACT 2600, Australia
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