The British Association for the Advancement of Science Meeting, Dundee 1912. Geological excursion in the North-West Highlands of Scotland. Assynt region conducted by B.N. Peach and John Horne. 11th 18th September 1912. Outside the Inchnadamph Hotel. Overseas participants.
From the 'Grizzly Bears' Dinner Books.
List of participants on the field excursion.
Bob McIntosh
Thank you for showing some great French geologists of the past, including Elisabeth Jeremine who, later, went to Paris to work with the Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle.
ReplyDeleteThank you very much for your comment and note on Elizabeth Jeremine. Do you know if Madame Barrois was a geologist in her own right?
ReplyDeleteBob
No, she wasn't.
DeleteCharles Barrois married Henriette-Marie Bonte in 1879.
Pierre Pruvost (the guy with the fedora hat in the back) wrote, with this pompous style of former days :
"Cette épouse, cette mère, collaboratrice totale de son foyer et de sa vocation fut pour lui, dès lors et jusqu'au bout, la compagne intelligente et dévouée, résolue à ces sacrifices qu'impose si souvent l'activité d'un géologue aux joies légitimes de la famille."
Which can be roughly translated as follows
"This wife, this mother, totally dedicated to their home and his vocation, was for him, from then on and up to the end, the intelligent and devoted partner, determined to make these sacrifices which the activity of a geologist so often imposes on the justifiable pleasures of family life".
Jean-Claude Porchier, webmaster of the AGBP
Thank you very much! This is really interesting, these sorts of fact add so much to the photograph.
DeleteBob
Nice picture, going on Friday, can't wait!
ReplyDeleteThanks Paul, when you are standing there looking at the Moine Thrust (or in the hotel), think of the pioneers who worked it all out and the famous geologist footsteps you are following in :-)
DeleteHave a great trip!
Bob