{ "timeline":{ "headline":"Timeline of the Lapworth Museum of Geology", "type":"default", "text":"", "startDate":"1880", "date":[ { "startDate":"1570", "headline":"Amphibolite collected by Sir Martin Frobisher", "text":"

Sir Martin Frobisher (1535 – 1594, Yorkshire). English Mariner. Known for voyages through Northwest Passage, three voyages were made during 1576, 1577 and 1578 to the Arctic, where Amphibolite was collected.

", "asset":{ "media":"http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/Images/college-LES-only/GEES/lapworth/timeline/frobisher-amphibolite.jpg", "credit":"UoB", "caption":"Portrait of Frobisher and (inset) amphibolite sample" } }, { "startDate":"1870", "headline":"Mason Science College founded by Sir Josiah Mason", "text":"

Sir Josiah Mason (23 February 1795 – 16 June 1881) who had made his fortune from producing split steel pen nibs.

", "asset":{ "media":"http://images.birminghamhistory.co.uk/coppermine/albums/userpics/10023/Josiah_Mason.jpg", "credit":"Birmingham History Forum", "caption":"Portrait of Sir Josiah Mason" } }, { "startDate":"1875", "headline":"Foundation stone of Mason College laid", "text":"", "asset":{ "media":"", "credit":"", "caption":"" } }, { "startDate":"1880", "headline":"Mason College officially opened", "text":"", "asset":{ "media":"http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/92/Mason_Science_College.png", "credit":"Wikimedia commons", "caption":"Mason College" } }, { "startDate":"1880", "headline":"Mason College Trustees purchase 1,650 Silurian fossils from Charles Ketley. Museum is formed", "text":"

CHARLES KETLEY (1817 -1884, Smethwick) Consulting mining engineer.

", "asset":{ "media":"http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/Images/College-LES-only/GEES/lapworth/timeline/ketley-fossils-147x196.jpg", "credit":"", "caption":"Silurian fossils" } }, { "startDate":"1880", "headline":"Donation of foraminifera and othe fossils and rocks Rev Underhill", "text":"Donation of foraminifera, upper greensand fossils, sharks teeth, brachiopods, corals, crustacean and rocks from the lizard from Rev Underhill (Canon of Christ Church Cathedral)", "asset":{ "media":"http://searcharchives.vancouver.ca/uploads/r/null/8/4/848150/d28c7ea2-fd34-40a4-9204-053f0071a108-A35569.jpg", "credit":"City of Vancouver archives", "caption":"Rev Harold John Underhill" } }, { "startDate":"1880", "headline":"Allport appointed librarian and museum curator", "text":"SAMUEL ALLPORT (1816 – 1897, Birmingham) Petrologist. Pioneer of microscopic petrology and preparation of rock thin sections. Rocks covered in his work include the basalts of South Staffordshire and diorites of Warwickshire.", "asset":{ "media":"http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/Images/College-LES-only/GEES/lapworth/timeline/samuel-allport-118x154.jpg", "credit":"University of Birmingham", "caption":"Samuel Allport" } }, { "startDate":"1881", "headline":"Lapworth appointed first Professor of Geology and Mineralogy", "text":"PROFESSOR CHARLES LAPWORTH (1842 – 1920, Berkshire) Lapworth received various awards for his contributions to geology including the Gold Medal of the Royal Society (1891).", "asset":{ "media":"http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/Images/College-LES-only/GEES/lapworth/timeline/lapworth-rs-medal-130x288.jpg", "credit":"University of Birmingham", "caption":"Prof Lapworth and his Royal Society medal" } }, { "startDate":"1880", "headline":"W J Harrison donates rocks from Charwood Forest", "text":"WILLIAM JEROME HARRISON (1845- 1908, Birmingham) English photographer; Curator, Leicester, Chief Science Master to Birmingham School Board; Chief Science Demonstrator to Birmingham School Board; School headmaster.", "asset":{ "media":"http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/Images/College-LES-only/GEES/lapworth/timeline/charwood-rocks-179x141.jpg", "credit":"University of Birmingham", "caption":"Charwood Forest, Nuneaton" } }, { "startDate":"1882", "headline":"Purchase of 20,000 specimens from Sharp collection", "text":"SAMUEL SHARP (1814 – 1882, Northampton) Geologist, archaeologist, numismatist. Collected extensive and varied geology and archaeology of Midlands district. British Museum Trustees purchased portion of geological collection.", "asset":{ "media":"http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/Images/College-LES-only/GEES/lapworth/timeline/sharp-specimen-135x166.jpg", "credit":"University of Birmingham", "caption":"Part of Sharp Collection" } }, { "startDate":"1885", "headline":"Donated extinct moa bird bones from New Zealand", "text":"Walter Arthur CHAMBERLAIN - No further information available", "asset":{ "media":"http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/Images/College-LES-only/GEES/lapworth/timeline/moa-bones-120x348.jpg", "credit":"University of Birmingham", "caption":"Bones from extinct moa bird" } }, { "startDate":"1888", "headline":"Lapworth proves first Lower Cambrian fauna in Britain with discovery of Olenellus at Comley Quarry in Shropshire", "text":"", "asset":{ "media":"http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/Images/College-LES-only/GEES/lapworth/timeline/olenellus-113x115.jpg", "credit":"University of Birmingham", "caption":"Olenellus" } }, { "startDate":"1888", "headline":"Archive contains lecture notes on geology by B Leslie in 1888 from lectures by Prof Lapworth of Mason College.", "text":"", "asset":{ "media":"http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/Images/College-LES-only/GEES/lapworth/timeline/lapworth-lectures-126x208.jpg", "credit":"University of Birmingham", "caption":"Lecture notes on Geology" } }, { "startDate":"1889", "headline":"Charles Lapworth donates basalts and graptolite specimens", "text":"", "asset":{ "media":"http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/Images/College-LES-only/GEES/lapworth/timeline/lapworth-graptolites-109x275.jpg", "credit":"University of Birmingham", "caption":"Graptolite and basalt specimens" } }, { "startDate":"1889", "headline":"Professor Lapworth and Boulton advertise geology lectures at Mason College", "text":"", "asset":{ "media":"http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/Images/College-LES-only/GEES/lapworth/timeline/geology-ad-381x154.jpg", "credit":"University of Birmingham", "caption":"Advert for Geology lectures" } }, { "startDate":"1889", "headline":"Carboniferous plants, Alps Moed donated by A Wills", "text":"SIR ALFRED WILLS (1828 – 1912, Birmingham) British high court judge and mountaineer. Educated at Edgbaston and university college London Wills became a barrister in 1851 and appointed queens counsel in 1872. Wills became the third president of the Alpine club from 1863 – 1865", "asset":{ "media":"http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/Images/College-LES-only/GEES/lapworth/timeline/alfred-wills-112x148.jpg", "credit":"www.mr-oscar-wilde.de", "caption":"Lapworth Museum of Geology" } }, { "startDate":"1890", "headline":"Jasper-More mineral collection gifted to Geology Museum", "text":"ROBERT JASPER-MORE - (1836 – 1903, Shropshire). English landowner, barrister and Liberal politician (1865-1903) He collected mineral specimens from the old lead mines of South Shropshire.", "asset":{ "media":"http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/Images/College-LES-only/GEES/lapworth/timeline/jasper-more-200x252.jpg", "credit":"University of Birmingham", "caption":"Jasper-More and specimen" } }, { "startDate":"1894", "headline":"Donation of glacial erratics and boulders by H W Crosskey.", "text":"REV. HENRY WILLIAM CROSSKEY (1826 - 1893, Sussex) Geologist. Trained at Manchester New College (1843 – 1848), Crosskey became pastor of Friargate chapel, Derby (until 1852), accepted a charge of a Unitarian congregation in Glasgow and moved to Birmingham in 1869 as the pastor of the Church of the Messiah.From 1855 he pursued his interest in geology, specializing in glacial drift erratic of the Midlands.", "asset":{ "media":"", "credit":"", "caption":"" } }, { "startDate":"1898", "headline":"Some Holcroft specimens donated.", "text":"SIR CHARLES HOLCROFT (1831- 1917, Staffordshire) Iron and coal master. Holcroft assembled major collection of fossils, predominantly from the West Midlands area. Collection donated to Mason College by nephew Sir George Holcroft in 1917", "asset":{ "media":"http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/Images/College-LES-only/GEES/lapworth/timeline/charles-holcroft-115x149.jpg", "credit":"University of Birmingham", "caption":"Sir Charles Holcroft" } }, { "startDate":"1900", "headline":"Donations by Rev Freer", "text":"Arthropods and plants, coal measures, Mazon Creek. Fossil fish, minerals donated by Rev Freer", "asset":{ "media":"http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/Images/College-LES-only/GEES/lapworth/timeline/freer-donation-223x186.jpg", "credit":"University of Birmingham", "caption":"Some specimens donated by Rev Freer" } }, { "startDate":"1900", "headline":"Acquired University charter", "text":"", "asset":{ "media":"", "credit":"", "caption":"" } }, { "startDate":"1900", "headline":"Gift of land at Edgbaston, building of new campus started", "text":"", "asset":{ "media":"http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/Images/College-LES-only/GEES/lapworth/timeline/new-campus-240x174.jpg", "credit":"University of Birmingham", "caption":"Lapworth Museum of Geology" } }, { "startDate":"1901", "headline":"Extensive work on A Monograph of British Graptolites by Gertrude L Elles and Ethel M R Wood", "text":"Edited by Lapworth (the most definitive work on these important fossil organisms). Printed for Palaeontographical Society.", "asset":{ "media":"http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/Images/College-LES-only/GEES/lapworth/timeline/ethel-wood-111x165.jpg", "credit":"University of Birmingham", "caption":"Ethel M R Wood" } }, { "startDate":"1910", "headline":"Buildings at Edgbaston taken over for hospital use during the War.", "text":"Teaching remained at Mason College. Post War recompense refers to broken glass on models, missing minerals and the missing cap and gown of the professor.", "asset":{ "media":"", "credit":"", "caption":"" } }, { "startDate":"1913", "headline":"Layout of the geology museum at Mason College recorded", "text":"", "asset":{ "media":"http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/Images/College-LES-only/GEES/lapworth/timeline/museum-layout-303x109.jpg", "credit":"University of Birmingham", "caption":"Museum layout" } }, { "startDate":"1913", "headline":"Boulton appointed Head of Geology department", "text":"", "asset":{ "media":"http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/Images/College-LES-only/GEES/lapworth/timeline/boulton-140x194.jpg", "credit":"University of Birmingham", "caption":"Boulton" } }, { "startDate":"1914", "headline":"Museum used as an ambulance station-garage during the First World War", "text":"", "asset":{ "media":"", "credit":"", "caption":"" } }, { "startDate":"1917", "headline":"Vertebrate trackways from Shropshire donated by Frank Raw", "text":"Dr Frank Raw (Geology Dept, University of Birmingham) collected important series of late Carboniferous fossil footprints near Alveley, Shropshire.", "asset":{ "media":"http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/Images/College-LES-only/GEES/lapworth/timeline/alveley-tracks-158z241.jpg", "credit":"University of Birmingham", "caption":"Alveley trackways" } }, { "startDate":"1919", "headline":"Release of Birmingham University Buildings by the War Office", "text":"", "asset":{ "media":"", "credit":"", "caption":"" } }, { "startDate":"1919", "headline":"Wills appointed Head of Geology Department", "text":"PROFESSOR LEONARD JOHNSTON WILLS (1884 – 1979, Birmingham) British Geologist. Wills took over as head of geology after Boulton's retirement.", "asset":{ "media":"http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/Images/College-LES-only/GEES/lapworth/timeline/wills-130x174.jpg", "credit":"University of Birmingham", "caption":"Professor Wills" } }, { "startDate":"1920", "headline":"Accession book restarted by W.H. Laurie", "text":"W.H. LAURIE (departmental steward) continued book until 1939. Also designed museum layout. Donated alkaline igneous suite. No further information available.", "asset":{ "media":"http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/Images/College-LES-only/GEES/lapworth/timeline/laurie-150x118.jpg", "credit":"University of Birmingham", "caption":"W. H. Laurie" } }, { "startDate":"1920", "headline":"All of Geology Department now at Edgbaston. Included cases from Edmund Street and new furnishings.", "text":"", "asset":{ "media":"", "credit":"", "caption":"" } }, { "startDate":"1921", "headline":"Charles Lapworth dies.", "text":"", "asset":{ "media":"", "credit":"", "caption":"" } }, { "startDate":"1922", "headline":"Boulton donates specimens of iron ore, breccias and bores", "text":"", "asset":{ "media":"", "credit":"", "caption":"" } }, { "startDate":"1926", "headline":"Donation of specimens from C A Mately", "text":"Donation of mineral, rock and coprolite specimens from Bohemia, South Africa; Honolulu, New Zealand and Canada from C A Mately. C.A. MATLEY - (1884–1920, birth place unknown) No further information available", "asset":{ "media":"", "credit":"", "caption":"" } }, { "startDate":"1931", "headline":"Collection of Ammonites from The Natural History Museum", "text":"", "asset":{ "media":"", "credit":"", "caption":"" } }, { "startDate":"1935", "headline":"Specimens from Scott's ill-fated expedition to the south pole", "text":"SIR RAYMOND EDWARD PRIESTLEY (1886 – 1974, Glos) Geologist and Antarctic explorer. Presented Kenyte and other specimens from Antarctic.", "asset":{ "media":"http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/Images/College-LES-only/GEES/lapworth/timeline/priestley-130x213.jpg", "credit":"University of Birmingham", "caption":"Sir Raymond Edward Priestley" } }, { "startDate":"1938", "headline":"Donation of large collection of artefacts from H Dewey.", "text":"HENRY DEWEY (No further info) Donated artefacts from Swanscombe and the Thames Valley (inc. other archaeological material)", "asset":{ "media":"", "credit":"", "caption":"" } }, { "startDate":"1939", "headline":"Wills begins plans for new cabinets and showcases for the geology museum", "text":"", "asset":{ "media":"", "credit":"", "caption":"" } }, { "startDate":"1924", "headline":"Donation of fossils from the pit sinkings into the Silurian Bank underlying South Staffs Coalfield", "text":"WILLIAM WICKHAM KING (1863 – 1959, Stourbridge) Solicitor and magistrates clerk. King had an interest in geology, particularly the Clent Hills, Black Country and South Staffs Coalfield.", "asset":{ "media":"", "credit":"", "caption":"" } }, { "startDate":"1926", "headline":"Fossil collection donated by G Bantock", "text":"GRANVILLE BANTOCK (1868 – 1946, London) Professor of Music at the University, and also a collector of fine fossils. Presented the Lapworth Museum with specimens from the famous Solnhofen Limestone of Germany.", "asset":{ "media":"http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/Images/College-LES-only/GEES/lapworth/timeline/bantock-130x175.jpg", "credit":"University of Birmingham", "caption":"Granville Bantock" } }, { "startDate":"1926", "headline":"Special acquisition of Eophrynus prestvici from Misses Titley", "text":"", "asset":{ "media":"http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/Images/College-LES-only/GEES/lapworth/timeline/eophrynus-200x190.jpg", "credit":"University of Birmingham", "caption":"Eophrynus prestvici" } }, { "startDate":"1930", "headline":"Earliest internal picture of the geology museum at the University of Birmingham Edgbaston campus.", "text":"", "asset":{ "media":"http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/Images/College-LES-only/GEES/lapworth/timeline/early-interior-200x135.jpg", "credit":"University of Birmingham", "caption":"Museum interior" } }, { "startDate":"1939", "headline":"Shotton carries out Military geology work for army in North Africa", "text":"PROFESSOR FREDERICK WILLIAM SHOTTON (1906–1990, Coventry). British Geologist. Best know for groundbreaking research on Pleistocene geology of Midlands", "asset":{ "media":"http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/Images/College-LES-only/GEES/lapworth/timeline/shotton-130x181.jpg", "credit":"University of Birmingham", "caption":"Shotton map and photographs" } }, { "startDate":"1943", "headline":"Shotton begins military geology work for the D-Day Normandy landings.", "text":"", "asset":{ "media":"http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/Images/College-LES-only/GEES/lapworth/timeline/shotton-map-400x225.jpg", "credit":"University of Birmingham", "caption":"Professor Shotton" } }, { "startDate":"1944,7", "headline":"Donation of Goodchild Collection of minerals and early geological maps", "text":"J.G. GOODCHILD (1844–1906) Geologist. Worked with the Geological Survey for 40 years. Mapped areas within, and neighbouring, the Lake District.", "asset":{ "media":"http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/Images/College-LES-only/GEES/lapworth/timeline/goodchild-250x158.jpg", "credit":"University of Birmingham", "caption":"Mineral specimen" } }, { "startDate":"1945", "headline":"Purchase of Murdoch Collection", "text":"WILLIAM MURDOCH (1754–1839) was an associate of James Watt and Mathew Boulton at the Soho works in Birmingham, and was a brilliant engineer and inventor.", "asset":{ "media":"http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/Images/College-LES-only/GEES/lapworth/timeline/murdoch-123x158.jpg", "credit":"University of Birmingham", "caption":"William Murdoch" } }, { "startDate":"1949", "headline":"Shotton appointed Head of Department of Geology at the University of Birmingham", "text":"", "asset":{ "media":"", "credit":"", "caption":"" } }, { "startDate":"1950", "headline":"Professor Shotton and his research student Russell Coope collect an important Pleistocene mammal and beetle fauna (40,000 years old) from Upton Warren in Worcestershire.", "text":"", "asset":{ "media":"http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/Images/College-LES-only/GEES/lapworth/timeline/upton-warren-203x116.jpg", "credit":"University of Birmingham", "caption":"Pleistocene fauna" } }, { "startDate":"1974", "headline":"Donation of Wattison Collection of approx 18,000 specimens", "text":"JOHN THOMAS WATTISON (1884 - 1974, Stoke) Born in the Potteries, John Thomas Wattison was one of the last great amateur collectors of the geological world.", "asset":{ "media":"http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/Images/College-LES-only/GEES/lapworth/timeline/wattison-200x179.jpg", "credit":"University of Birmingham", "caption":"Wattison collection" } }, { "startDate":"1885", "headline":"Gift of Ship Captains report and specimens of the 1883 eruption of Krakatoa", "text":"", "asset":{ "media":"", "credit":"", "caption":"" } }, { "startDate":"1988", "headline":"University of Birmingham Chemistry Department Mineral Collection donated to Lapworth museum", "text":"", "asset":{ "media":"http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/Images/College-LES-only/GEES/lapworth/timeline/chemistry-dept-146x127.jpg", "credit":"University of Birmingham", "caption":"Chemistry Dept. Mineral Collection" } }, { "startDate":"1989", "headline":"Reorganisation of UK Geological Society department. Aston and Birmingham merge and their collections combined at the University of Birmingham.", "text":"", "asset":{ "media":"", "credit":"", "caption":"" } }, { "startDate":"1996", "headline":"Gift of Humphreys Odontological Collection from University of Birmingham Medical School", "text":"Includes modern animal skulls highlighting teeth, and also various fossil teeth", "asset":{ "media":"http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/Images/College-LES-only/GEES/lapworth/timeline/humpreys-collection-240x134.jpg", "credit":"University of Birmingham", "caption":"Humphreys Odontological Collection" } }, { "startDate":"2008,8", "headline":"Designated as collections of outstanding National importance", "text":"All of the Lapworth Museum's collections, including the archives, were Designated as collections of outstanding National importance, under the Museum, Libraries & Archive Council's Designation Scheme", "asset":{ "media":"", "credit":"", "caption":"" } }, { "startDate":"2009,8", "headline":"Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery Geology Collection on long term loan to the Lapworth Museum of Geology", "text":"", "asset":{ "media":"http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/Images/College-LES-only/GEES/lapworth/timeline/british-museum-238x135.jpg", "credit":"University of Birmingham", "caption":"BM&AG Geology Collection" } }, { "startDate":"2012,3", "headline":"Lapworth's microscope - Object of the Month", "text":"", "asset":{ "media":"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lF7fARIKqeo", "credit":"University of birmingham", "caption":"" } }, { "startDate":"2012,6", "headline":"Submission of Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) Round 1 application for the Lapworth Museum's Redevelopment Project.", "text":"", "asset":{ "media":"", "credit":"", "caption":"" } }, { "startDate":"2012,9", "headline":"HLF Round 1 application for Lapworth Redevelopment Project approved.", "text":"", "asset":{ "media":"", "credit":"", "caption":"" } }, { "startDate":"2012,9", "headline":"World's oldest pine cone - Object of the Month", "text":"", "asset":{ "media":"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qj4F60NBVL4", "credit":"University of Birmingham", "caption":"" } }, { "startDate":"2013,9", "headline":"Honorary Doctorate speech for Marie Sklodowska Curie - Object of the Month", "text":"", "asset":{ "media":"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3X1bJpJmAs", "credit":"University of Birmingham", "caption":"" } }, { "startDate":"2012,11", "headline":"Teaching and Learning in the Lapworth Museum of Geology", "text":"", "asset":{ "media":"www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8NCM3-N4aw", "credit":"University of Birmingham", "caption":"" } }, { "startDate":"2012,12", "headline":"Shotton's maps of the Normandy landing beaches - Object of the Month", "text":"", "asset":{ "media":"www.youtube.com/watch?v=9kV7b-QiJJo", "credit":"University of Birmingham", "caption":"" } }, { "startDate":"2013,1", "headline":"Odessa meteorite - Object of the Month", "text":"", "asset":{ "media":"www.youtube.com/watch?v=AAiD503tNRY", "credit":"University of Birmingham", "caption":"" } }, { "startDate":"2013,2", "headline":"Crotalocephalus sp. Trilobite - Object of the Month", "text":"", "asset":{ "media":"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4qixqnvv4H4", "credit":"University of Birmingham", "caption":"" } }, { "startDate":"2013,6", "headline":"Hemicyclaspis murchisoni - Object of the Month", "text":"", "asset":{ "media":"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A7VdrVHxui8", "credit":"University of Birmingham", "caption":"" } }, { "startDate":"2013,8", "headline":"Rutile in quartz - Object of the Month", "text":"", "asset":{ "media":"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M4ESw_Pgj8o", "credit":"University of Birmingham", "caption":"" } }, { "startDate":"2013,5", "headline":"Antrimpos speciosus - Object of the Month", "text":"", "asset":{ "media":"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ON19PtJlO8g", "credit":"University of Birmingham", "caption":"" } }, { "startDate":"1990", "headline":"Registered Museum status obtained", "text":"", "asset":{ "media":"", "credit":"", "caption":"" } } ] } }