THE GEOLOGY OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE (1921)

Contains nineteen Sections, each with bibliographical references. Including the Rhodesia and Nyasaland, Southern Africa, British Togoland, East Africa, British West Africa, Anglo-Egyptian Sudan (it was a condominium of the United Kingdom and Egypt between 1899 and 1956, corresponding mostly to the territory of present-day South Sudan and Sudan), Palestine, The West Indies and British Guiana, India, Burma and Ceylon, Southeast Asia, Australia and New Zealand, Oceania, Canada and Newfoundland, South Georgia, and the Mediterranean Area.

Frederick Richard Cowper Reed (1860 – 1946) was an English palaeontologist and geologist who studied invertebrate fossils mainly in Britain but also travelled and wrote a book on the geology of the British Empire. He won the Harkness scholarship for geology and palaeontology as well as the Sedgwick Prize in 1901 for his work on the geological history of the East Yorkshire rivers. He received an Sc.D. in 1914. He worked at the Woodwardian Museum from 1892 initially as an assistant. Reed spent most of the inter war period abroad, living in Southern Rhodesia from 1922 to 1933 where he helped to examine and identify remains of the Massospondylus and Coelophysis. From 1933 to early 1935 he lived in the Tanganyika Territory where he worked on the remains of the Kentrosaurus before returning home to Cambridgeshire that July. Reed's work was on British palaeontology with interests in Brachiopods and Trilobites. He also contributed to the Paleontologica India between 1906 and 1944. In 1921 he published a Geology of the British Empire based on travels through Africa, India and Canada (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F._R._Cowper_Reed).

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