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Papers of Ernest Westlake, 1855-1922
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- Westlake
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Title (The name of the record)
- Papers of Ernest Westlake, 1855-1922
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Compiled by S M Brecknell, October 2005
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- Oxford University: Museum of Natural History
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- English
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- <persname>Westlake, Ernest, 1855-1922, geologist and palaeontologist</persname>
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These were acquired ca. 1999 from the University of Southampton.
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Ernest Westlake was a Hampshire geologist and palaeontologist with wide-ranging interests but particularly the echinoid fossils of the chalk and the supposed flint implements ('eoliths') of early man. Some of these 'implements', especially those found below the Pliocene, are now usually regarded as the products of natural flaking. Westlake was also interested in education and self-sufficiency, and in 'paranormal' phenomena and psychical research.
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Papers of Ernest Westlake, 1855-1922