18th and 19th century books on geology, transferred from the Geology Library, which used to house the collection of the Liverpool Geological Society.
Morton's Sketch of Keuper sandstone formation under Liverpool.
Liverpool Geological Society was founded in 1859 at the home of George Highfield Morton (1826-1900), a Liverpool painter and decorator, who had been made Fellow of the Geological Society (FGS) in 1858. The EB collection includes Morton’s interleaved, annotated copy of The geology of the country around Liverpool (1863).
Morton’s correspondence with fellow Liverpool geologist Thomas Mellard Reade (1832-1909) is held in the T.M. Reade papers; the University Archive holds his notebooks and published papers (in the archive of Professor Percy Boswell), and correspondence relating to his geological collections.
The EB collection holds books formerly owned by other notable geologists, including Professor Robert Harkness FGS (1816 – 1878) and Frederic William Harmer FGS (1835 – 1923), and Professor Sir William Herdman (1858-1924), founder of the University of Liverpool’s Chair of Geology (1917) and Jane Herdman Laboratories of Geology (1928), in memory of his son and his wife.
