Worthington George Smith
Worthington George Smith
| Worthington George Smith FLS | |||||||||||
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| Born | 1835 | ||||||||||
| Died | 1917 | ||||||||||
| Residence |
12 North Grove West, Mildmay Park, N. [1865, 1867, 1869, 1872] 15 Mildmay Grove, N. [1875, 1878, 1879] 125 Grosvenor Road, Highbury, N. [1881] 38 Kyverdale Road, N. [1883, 1885] West Street, Dunstable [1888] 121 High Street, Dunstable [1894, 1897, 1899, 1900, 1901, 1902, 1903, 1905, 1906, 1907, 1909, 1911, 1913] | ||||||||||
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artist academic | ||||||||||
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Contents
Notes
Office Notes
AI Council 1885 Member
House Notes
1867.12.17 resigns - it is W.G. - maybe they are not the same?? check if poss - I believe that this resignation is more likely to have been George Whitely Smith, qv because Worthington remains on lists until his death
obit, Man Dec. 1917
Notes From Elsewhere
Worthington George Smith (23 March 1835 – 27 October 1917) was an English cartoonist and illustrator, archaeologist, plant pathologist, and mycologist.
Smith became the local county secretary for the Society of Antiquaries in 1897
Architectural illustrator
Born London; died Dunstable.
Apprenticed as an architect but gave this up to become illustrator. Worked for Natural History Museum and combined botanical and archaeological searches. Important publications in botany and archaeology-the latter with particular reference to the Lower Palaeolithic
Publications
External Publications
Mushrooms and Toadstools: How to distinguish easily the differences between the Edible and Poisonous Fungi (David Brogue, 1879). Diseases of field and garden crops. (Macmillan, 1884) Outlines of British fungology: Supplement. (Reeve, 1891) Man, the primeval savage; his haunts and relics from the hilltops of Bedfordshire to Blackwall. (E. Stanford, 1894) Guide to Sowerby's models of British fungi in the Department of Botany, British Museum (Natural History). (British Museum,1898) Dunstable: The downs and the district: A handbook for visitors. (The Homeland Association,1904)
House Publications
On a Palaeolithic floor at North east London JAI xiii 357-384
Exhibition of palaeolithic implements from the valley of the Axe JAI IX 369
Palaeolithic implements from the valley of the Brent JAI ix 316-320
On Palaeolithic implements from the valley of the Lea JAI viii 275-279
Exhibition of Palaeolithic implements from the valley of the Thams JAI iv 369
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Other Material
some of his collections are held at the British Museum, Luton Museum, and the Museum of London.
PRM field collector