Frederick Collier Bakewell
| Frederick Collier Bakewell | |||||
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| Born | 1800 | ||||
| Died | 1969 | ||||
| Residence | 6 Haverstock Terrace, Hampstead | ||||
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Contents
Notes
Office Notes
he is the reporter to both societies
House Notes
A1 Resolved that Mr Bakewell’s offer to attend some of the meetings of the Society and to take short hand notes of the discussions to write out a fair copy for the Journal and assist in preparing reports for the newspapers at two guineas a meeting be accepted.
A5 32 T. Bakewell, 6 Haverstock Terrace, Hampstead to CCB, 16 Nov. [1865] – reports that K.R.H. Mackenzie, FSA is anxious to see account of his speech [14 Nov.], JASL, vol. 4, 1866, pp. xiii-xiv, annotated by C.C. Blake
33 Ibid., 6 Dec. – report enclosed of speeches of last meeting [5 Dec.], JASL, vol. 4, 1866, pp. xviii-xxxi
34 Ibid., 20 Dec. – unable to send report of previous night’s meeting until next week; requests copy of Dunbar I. Heath’s paper, ‘On the primary anthropoid and secondary mute origin of the European races …’, JASL, vol. 4, 1866, pp. xxxiii-xlviii
35 Ibid., 29 Dec. – report enclosed of Prof. Max Müller’s speech at last meeting [19 Dec.], JASL, vol. 4, 1866, pp. xlvi-xlviii
36 Ibid., 17 Feb. 1866 – despatch of report of previous meeting [6 Feb.]
37 Ibid., 12 Mar. – ibid. [6 Mar.] and comments on C.C. Blake’s talk, ‘Certain simious skulls …’, JASL, vol. 4, 1866, pp. cxxxvi-vii
38 Ibid., 7 May – [1 May]
Notes From Elsewhere
related to Frederick Collier Bakewell 1800-1969, physicist, author and inventor, who lived a the same address.
FBEDERICK COLLIER BAKEWELL, a well-known writer on geological and physical science, died 26th September, 1869. H e was the son of Robert Bakewell, the eminent geologist, whose " Introduction to Geology," published first in 1814, was the earliest comprehensive work on this subject. Mr. F. C. Bakewell was very early connected with the Press, having been editor of the now almost forgotten Courier—the Times of its day—and later, as scientific writer for the Morning Post and Daily News, etc., in which capacity for many years he attended the meetings of the " British Association for the Advancement of Science." His earliest work was "Philosophical Conversations," a practical introduction to every-day science for young people; and in 1835 he published "Natural Evidences of a Future Life," which he was revising for the press at the time of his death, and which will shortly appear in a new edition. Among his other works were " Electric Science, its History, Phenomena, and Applications" (1853); Geology for Schools and Students;" " History of Modern Inventions," etc. He interested himself recently in a discussion as to the Shape of the Earth at the Poles; and in 1867 published a small pamphlet entitled, " A Dynamical Theory of the Figure of the Earth." a brief notice of which was given in the GEOLOGICAL MAGAZINE, Vol. iv., p. 430. Mr. Bakewell possessed an extraordinarily inventive genius, and occupied himself in the construction of many interesting and novel appliances. His greatest and favorite invention was that of the Copying Electric Telegraph, for which he was awarded the Council Medal at the Exhibition of 1851, some modification of which will probably, sooner or later, be adopted for the transmission of messages'.
