Frederick William Rudler

Frederick William Rudler FGS ISO
Born	1840
Died	1915
Residence	Museum of Practical Geology, Jermyn St., SW [JAI 1871] School of mines [1871] University College of Wales, Aberystwyth; and 6 Pond-street, Hampstead, NW [1872] Director Museum of Practical Geology, Jermyn Street, SW [1875] Vice President, Royal School of Mines, 28 Jermyn Street; and 6 Regent's Park Villas, Gloucester Gate, NW [1881] 28 Jermyn Street; and 34 Charleville Road, SW [1888] Gainsborough, Lonsdale Road, barnes, SW [1894] 25 Mornington Crescent, NW [1897] 18 St George's Road, Kilburn, NW [1903] Ethel Villa, Tatsfield, Westerham [1909]
Occupation	academic mineralogist
Society Membership membership ESL Assistant Secretary, sub-editor 1869, 1870 AI Ordinary Fellow left 1915 deceased elected_ESL 1869 ? elected_AI 1871.04.03 clubs Essex Field Club societies Geological Society Anthropological Society of Paris British Association

Notes

Office Notes

ESL Council 1869-70 Asst. Secretary

AI Council 1873 Member
AI Council 1874 Member
AI Council 1875 Director
AI Council 1876 Director
AI Council 1877 Member
AI Council 1878 Member
AI Council 1879 Member
AI Council 1880 Member
AI Council 1881 Vice President
AI Council 1882 Director
AI Council 1883 Director
AI Council 1884 Director
AI Council 1885 Director
AI Council 1886 Director
AI Council 1887 Hon. Secretary
AI Council 1888 Hon. Secretary
AI Council 1889 Hon. Secretary
AI Council 1890 Hon. Secretary
AI Council 1891 Vice President
AI Council 1892 Vice President
AI Council 1893 Vice President
AI Council 1894 Member
AI Council 1895 Member
AI Council 1896 Member
AI Council 1897 Member
AI Council 1898 President
AI Council 1912-13 Vice President (pp)

House Notes

Corr. Member Anthrop. Soc., Paris
proposed 1871.03.20
[Annual Report for 1871]: The Council is sorry to say that Mr. F. W. Rudler has during the past year resigned his office of Sub-editor of the Journal; and they have appointed the Secretary, Mr. J. Fred. Collingwood
1875 annual report. We have to regret the loss, I hope only temporarily, of our esteemed Director, Mr. Rudler, he having been appointed Professor of Science at the College of St. Asaph. It has been owing to his unwearying energy, during the short intervals of time that he has been able to spare from his professional duties, that we are indebted for the regutlar appearance of our Quarterly Journal on the 1st day of each quarter,a matter of no slight importance to its success with the public
another portrait in Man 1915
death noted in the report of the council for 1915. Foundation Member, obituary notice appeared in Man, 1915, 18)

Notes From Elsewhere

Frederick William Rudler was born in London on the 8th of July 1840. He began his career at the Museum of Practical Geology in 1861, where he was to remain until 1876. It was during this period, in 1869, that he accepted the role of Assistant Secretary of the Ethnological Society. He then took up a position as lecturer in natural science at the University College of Wales (Aberystwyth), and was to become one of the College's earliest professors of geology.

Rudler became Registrar of the Royal School of Mines in 1879, and held this position for a year. In 1880 he took up the role of President of the Anthropological Department of the British Association, and seven years later he began a two-year spell as President of the Geologists Association. In the same year he was made Curator and Librarian of the Museum of Practical Geology, and would remain so until 1902. Rudler's string of presidencies continued in 1898, when he entered into a year long period as President of the Anthropological Institute. In 1903, he was made President of the Essex Field Club, and the following year President of the S E Union of Scientific Societies.

Rudler published a great deal, and his works appear in various literary and scientific journals. He also acted as assistant editor on Ure's Dictionary of Arts and Manufacturers (1875), and contributed both to the Encyclopaedia Britannica and Thorpe's Dictionary of Applied Chemistry. He died on the 23 January 1915.
1840 Born.
1861 Appointed Assistant Curator.
1876 Resigned.
1876 – 1879 Lecturer in Natural Science, Aberystwyth.
1879 Appointed Assistant Curator and Librarian, and Registrar (R.S.M.).
1887 – 1889 President Geologists' Association.
1902 I.S.O.
1903 Lyell Medal.
1902 Retired.
1915 Died.
Biographies and Obituaries
1915 Geologists Magazine 1915, p 142.
1915 Q.J.G.S. 1915, p. lviii.

Publications

External Publications

Geographical reading books, ed. by F.W. Rudler

Europe, by F.W. Rudler and G.G. Chisholm, ed. by sir A. C. Ramsay

House Publications

Exhibition of ethnological objects from South America JAI xviii 274, 275
Notes on the mineralogical characters of the stone arrow-heads from the Rio Negro JAI iv 320, 321
Nachtigal's journey to the Tibbu-Reschade JAI i PES p. clix
On the source of jade used for ancient implements in Europe and America JAI xx 332-342

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papers in Aberystwyth University