Lost & Found: 240. Thomas Owen Bosworth (1882-1928)

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Dr James B. Richardson III, Chairman, Division of Anthropology, Professor of Anthropology, University of Pittsburgh, Edward O'Neil Research Centre, 5800 Baum Boulevard, Pittsburgh, PA 15206-3706, U.S.A. [fax:412-6652751] writes: I am seeking information and archival material belonging to Dr. Thomas Owen Bosworth, the noted English geologist. Bosworth spent a time employed as a school teacher in Northampton before becoming a geologist with the Geological Survey in Scotland. He then worked for a petroleum company in northwestern Peru and later in Canada. He died at the early age of 46, in Spratton, leaving a widow and five children. He was the author of Geology of the Tertiary and Quaternary Periods in the north-west part of Peru (Macmillan...