Richard Gilbert West

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According to Wikipedia, Richard Gilbert West FRS was a British botanist, geologist and palaeontologist. Career He began his career at the age of 18 in 1944 when he joined the Army and spent time in India. On return to England, he went to Clare College, Cambridge in 1948 taking Botany and Geology at Part I. Although being tempted to take Geology for Part II, he decided to study Botany, for which he obtained First Class Honours and the Frank Smart Studentship. As a research student, he was supervised by Harry Godwin, Director of the Subdepartment of Quaternary Research and investigated the now classic study of the stratigraphy and palynology of the Middle Pleistocene interglacial lake deposits at Hoxne, Suffolk. He was awarded his PhD in 1954, shortly after he was elected a Fellow of Clare College, Cambridge. Richard become a lecturer in the Department of Botany in 1960, in 1966 he became Director of the Subdepartment, and Professor of Botany in 1977. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1968 and was awarded many medals and prizes, including the Lyell and Bigsby medals of the Geological Society and the Albrecht Penck medal of the Deutsche Quartärvereiningung. He retired in 1991.

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Pleistocene geology and biology (1969) (234)
PLEISTOCENE FOREST HISTORY IN EAST ANGLIA (1980) (192)
The Quaternary deposits at Hoxne, Suffolk (1956) (164)
Early and early Middle Pleistocene correlations in the Southern North Sea basin (1991) (151)
Studies in the Vegetational History of the British Isles (1971) (146)
The subdivision and zonation of interglacial periods (1968) (142)
The glaciations of East Anglia and the East Midlands: a differentiation based on stone-orientation measurements of the tills (1956) (128)
Coastal interglacial deposits of the English Channel (1960) (109)
POLLEN ZONES IN THE PLEISTOCENE OF GREAT BRITAIN AND THEIR CORRELATION (1970) (106)
ON THE STRATIGRAPHY AND PALAEOBOTANY OF A LATE‐PLEISTOCENE ORGANIC DEPOSIT AT CHELFORD, CHESHIRE (1958) (102)
The geology of Moor House (1964) (97)
On the mechanism by which stones in till become oriented (1957) (94)
Holocene to Middle Last Glaciation vegetation history at Tullabardine Dam, western Tasmania (1986) (93)
Bryophytes of the Pleistocene: J.H. Dickson, 1973. Cambridge University Press, London, 256 pp., 21 plates, 96 fig., 41 tables, £ 12.80 (1973) (91)
Interglacial deposits at Bobbitshole, Ipswich (1957) (91)
Radiocarbon dating of Flandrian pollen zones at Red Moss, Lancashire (1971) (89)
Vegetational history of the Early Pleistocene of the Royal Society Borehole at Ludham, Norfolk (1962) (73)
Late Middle Pleistocene glaciation in East Anglia, England (2009) (71)
Late-Pleistocene Environments of North Pacific North America. (1961) (67)
Pollen analyses from interglacial deposits at Aveley and Grays, Essex (1969) (60)
Problems of the British Quaternary (1963) (59)
Late Pleistocene Deposits at Wretton, Norfolk II. Devensian Deposits (1974) (59)
Interglacial deposits at Ilford, Essex (1964) (59)
Late- and postglacial vegetational history in Wisconsin, particularly changes associated with the Valders readvance (1961) (58)
The margin of a Middle Pleistocene ice advance at Tottenhill, Norfolk, England (1992) (54)
Late pleistocene deposits at Wretton, Norfolk. I. Ipswichian interglacial deposits. (1970) (51)
The Crag at Bramerton, Near Norwich, Norfolk (1979) (50)
INTER-RELATIONS OF ECOLOGY AND QUATERNARY PALAEOBOTANY (1964) (48)
Relative land-sea-level changes in southeastern England during the Pleistocene (1972) (45)
The Palaeoecology of the Interglacial Deposits at Histon Road, Cambridge (1959) (45)
Quaternary chronostratigraphy: the nomenclature of terrestrial sequences (2000) (44)
On the extent of the Last Glaciation in eastern England (1959) (42)
Late and Middle Pleistocene deposits at Somersham, Cambridgeshire, U.K.: a model for reconstructing fluvial/estuarine depositional environments (1999) (41)
THE EARLY PLEISTOCENE OF EASTON BAVENTS, SUFFOLK (1962) (40)
Fenland: Its Ancient Past and Uncertain Future. (1980) (40)
Cromer Forest Bed Series (1966) (37)
University of Cambridge Natural Radiocarbon Measurements XI (1973) (37)
Late Middle Pleistocene ice‐marginal sedimentation in East Anglia, England (2012) (36)
The Icenian Crag of southeast Suffolk (1974) (35)
Late Cromerian Fauna and Flora at Ostend, Norfolk (1976) (34)
The Ice Age in Britain (1972) (34)
Pleistocene glaciation of Fenland, England, and its implications for evolution of the region (2018) (32)
Hoxnian interglacial deposits near Hatfield, Herts (1969) (32)
The Quaternary Deposits at Hoxne, Suffolk, and their Archaeology (1955) (31)
The quaternary geology of Brageneset, Nordaustlandet, Spitsbergen (1957) (31)
Quaternary Plant Ecology (2016) (29)
Pleistocene Deposits at Earnley, Bracklesham Bay, Sussex (1984) (29)
The interglacial deposits at Stutton, Suffolk (1963) (28)
Patterned Ground in Breckland: Structure and Composition (1966) (27)
Plant life of the Quaternary cold stages (2000) (27)
POLLEN CATCHMENT IN RELATION TO LOCAL VEGETATION: CEANN EAR, MONACH ISLES N.N.R., OUTER HEBRIDES (1986) (27)
The Browning Produced by Heating Fresh Pork. I. The Relation of Browning Intensity to Chemical Constituents and pHa,b (1962) (26)
Early and Middle Devensian Flora and Vegetation [and Discussion] (1977) (26)
POLLEN SPECTRA FROM PLIOCENE CRAG AT ORFORD, SUFFOLK (1977) (25)
The Bytham river reconsidered (2013) (24)
The Drift Landforms around Holt, Norfolk (1964) (23)
On the history of the Late Devensian Lake Sparks in southern Fenland, Cambridgeshire, England (1993) (22)
FORAMINIFERA AND POLLEN FROM A MARINE INTERGLACIAL DEPOSIT IN THE WESTERN NORTH SEA (1969) (22)
On the origin of Grunty Fen and other landforms in southern Fenland, Cambridgeshire (1991) (22)
Plant Life of the Quaternary Cold Stages: Evidence from the British Isles (2011) (21)
THE OCCURRENCE OF AZOLLA IN BRITISH INTERGLACIAL DEPOSITS (1953) (20)
11. INTERGLACIAL AND INTERSTADIAL VEGETATION IN ENGLAND (1961) (19)
Palaeontology and taphonomy of Late Quaternary fossil assemblages at Somersham, Cambridgeshire, England, and the problem of reworking (1994) (19)
Interglacial deposits at Wortwell, Norfolk (1968) (19)
The fauna and flora of the March Gravels at Northam Pit, Eye, Cambridgeshire, England (1990) (18)
The record of the cold stages (1988) (18)
The last interglacial‐glacial transition in North America (1996) (17)
Late Middle Pleistocene glaciofluvial sedimentation in western Norfolk, England (2012) (17)
Quaternary plant ecology : the 14th Symposium of the British Ecological Society, University of Cambridge, 28-30 March 1972 (1973) (17)
Geology and geomorphology of the Palaeolithic site at High Lodge, Mildenhall, Suffolk, England (2014) (16)
Devensian thermal contraction networks and cracks at Somersham, Cambridgeshire, UK (1993) (16)
Pleistocene palaeoecology of central Norfolk (1991) (16)
Plant remains from the Corton Beds at Lowestoft, Suffolk (1968) (14)
Late Pleistocene deposits at Block Fen, Cambridgeshire, England (1995) (14)
Discussion on excavations at the Lower Palaeolithic site at East Farm, Barnham, Suffolk, 1989-1992 (1995) (13)
A NOTE ON TAXUS POLLEN IN THE HOXNIAN INTERGLAGIAL (1962) (13)
Summer Field Meeting in East Anglia (1960) (13)
Ice wedges in south-eastern Finland (1968) (11)
Late Pleistocene deposits at Chatteris, March and Wimblington, Cambridgeshire, UK (1995) (10)
Taphonomy of plant remains on floodplains of tundra rivers, present and Pleistocene (2006) (10)
The Pleistocene Epoch in East Anglia (1958) (10)
The vitamin and amino acid content of drip obtained upon defrosting frozen pork. (1959) (9)
On Post-Glacial Pelicans in Britain (1958) (9)
Seasonal Changes of Host Use by Culiseta melanura (Diptera: Culicidae) in Central Florida (2020) (8)
Vectorial Capacity of Culiseta melanura (Diptera: Culicidae) Changes Seasonally and Is Related to Epizootic Transmission of Eastern Equine Encephalitis Virus in Central Florida (2020) (8)
A note on pollen analyses from the Speeton Shell Bed (1969) (8)
Notes on a preliminary map of the drift topography around Holt and Cromer, Norfolk (1957) (8)
A pollen diagram from an interglacial deposit at Trysull, Staffordshire, England* (1988) (7)
A Commentary on Quaternary Cold Stage Floras in Britain (1988) (7)
Short field meeting on the north Norfolk coast (1968) (7)
Human occupation of northern Europe in MIS 13: Happisburgh Site 1 (Norfolk, UK) and its European context: A response to Lewis et al. (2019) (2019) (7)
The Hoxne Interglacial Reconsidered (1954) (6)
Fluctuations of the Vestfonna ice margin at Brageneset, Nordaustlandet, Svalbard, after the last glacial maximum (1995) (5)
Late Quaternary sediments with Chara encrustations in southern Fenland (1993) (5)
PALAEOBOTANY AND PLEISTOCENE STRATIGRAPHY IN BRITAIN (1981) (5)
Plant macroscopic remains from recent sediments of Banks Island, Northwest Territories, and Bathurst Island, Nunavut, Canada, and the interpretation of Quaternary cold stage plant macroscopic assemblages (2000) (5)
Luminescence dating of a late Middle Pleistocene glacial advance in eastern England (2021) (4)
The past three million years : evolution of climatic variability in the North Atlantic region : proceedings of a Royal Society Discussion Meeting held on 25 and 26 February 1987 (1988) (4)
Late Middle Pleistocene temperate and associated events in lowland England (2020) (4)
Pleistocene geology of the Palaeolithic sequence at Redhill, Thetford, Norfolk, England (2008) (4)
Pleistocene Palaeoecology of Central Norfolk; A Study of Environments Through Time. (1992) (3)
Patterned ground and superficial deposits at Hare Park, Swaffham Bulbeck, Cambridgeshire, England (2017) (3)
Pleistocene Palaeoecology of Central Norfolk: A Study of Environments through Time (2009) (3)
A pollen diagram from Norwich Crag at Outney Common, Bungay, Suffolk (1988) (3)
Professor Sir Harry Godwin, F.R.S., 1901–1985 — a tribute (1986) (3)
The Cromerian Interglacial (1958) (3)
Brazza of the Congo: European exploration and exploitation in French Equatorial Africa (1972) (3)
Global palaeoclimate of the Late Cenozoic (2008) (3)
The Effect of Added Enzymes Upon the Free Amino Groups and Organoleptic Ratings of Irradiated Beef During Storagea,b (1961) (2)
Late Pleistocene temperate deposits in Lincolnshire, England and their implication for the history of the River Trent system (2020) (2)
Climatic change in the Quaternary—evidence and ideas (1985) (2)
The Pre-Glacial Pleistocene of the Norfolk and Suffolk Coasts@@@Quaternary Palaeoeclogy@@@Biology and Quaternary Environments (1982) (2)
SIR HARRY GODWIN (1901–1985) (1986) (2)
Evolution of a periglacial landscape in the Late Devensian: environments and palaeobotany of the Mepal area, Cambridgeshire, England (2002) (2)
Tertiary Flora of Spitsbergen (1963) (1)
The Observatory Gravels and the Travellers’ Rest Pit, Cambridge, England (2017) (1)
The History of British Vegetation@@@Studies in the Vegetational History of the British Isles: Essays in Honour of Harry Godwin (1971) (1)
Outline of the stratigraphy and vegetational history of the Cromer Forest-bed Formation (2020) (1)
Harry Godwin, 9 May 1901 - 12 August 1985 (1988) (1)
Glacial Ages (1971) (1)
Pleistocene Topics (1970) (0)
Pleistocene Geology and Biology.@@@British Quaternary Studies. (1978) (0)
Glacial deposits in North-west Europe: Edited by Jürgen Ehlers. 1983. 470 pp., 409 text-figures and black and white photographs, 95 colour plates. Rotterdam: Balkema. Hfl 125.00/£29.00 (1983) (0)
Quaternary Quarterly (1971) (0)
A Levallois Flake from Somerhsma, Cambridgeshire (2016) (0)
A note on a thermokarst feature on the North Slope of Alaska (1994) (0)
The future of Quaternary research (1985) (0)
European Penetration into the Heart of Africa: Review@@@Brazza of the Congo: European Exploration and Exploitation in French Equatorial Africa (1972) (0)
Book Review: Island Britain: A Quaternary Perspective edited by R. C. Preece, The Geological Society, London, 1995. No. of pages: 267. Price: US$93, £56 (hb) (£29 to members of the Geological Society). ISBN 1-897799-32-2 (1997) (0)
A POSSIBLE LATE PLEISTOCENE MASS MOVEMENT IN FENLAND WITH AN ASSOCIATED MEDIEVAL SETTLEMENT: BURYSTEAD FARM, SUTTON, CAMBRIDGESHIRE (1998) (0)
Congo: An Account of a Century of European Exploration and Exploitation in the Heart of Africa (1972) (0)
Portrait of a Land Bridge (1986) (0)

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