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'''Edward Charlesworth'''
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=== House Notes ===
proposed 1866.01.16<br />1868.04.14 A letter having been read from Mr Edward Charlesworth offering his services as Travelling Secretary on behalf of the Society in England at his own expense and risk on condition of receiving commission on the first year’s subscriptions of Fellows introduced by him, it was resolved unanimously that Mr Charlesworth be appointed Travelling Secretary to the Society for England for the remainder of the current year on the following terms: - That 50 per cent of the first annual payment of each new annual subscriber and 12 ½ per cent of the Life Composition of each new compounder introduced by Mr Charlesworth be returned to him. Details of this agreement to be carried out by the Director.<br />death noted in report of the council for 1894<br />
=== Notes From Elsewhere ===
Edward Charlesworth (1813-1893) was an English palaeontologist.<br />Edward Charlesworth was the eldest son of the Rev John Charlesworth. He studied medicine but abandoned a career in this discipline in 1836 to work in the British Museum.He was interested in the Crag fossils of East Anglia and in the period 1835-1838 debated with Charles Lyell on the age and nature of the Crag formations. At this time he took over the Magazine of Natural History associated with William Bean.
