William Dickson Lang
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, William Dickson Lang was Keeper of the Department of Geology at the British Museum from 1928 until 1938. Early life Lang was born at Kurnal, India the second son of Edward Tickle Lang and Hebe, the daughter of John Venn Prior. At the age of 1, the family returned to England from the Punjab region of India. Lang's father was a civil servant, who had been working on the Jumna Canal in the Punjab.
William Dickson Lang's Published Works
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- A sedimentary and faunal study of the Blue Lias of Dorset and Glamorgan (1960) (125)
- Index of palaeozoic Coral genera (1940) (76)
- The blue lias of the devon and dorset coasts (74)
- Shales-with-‘beef,’ a Sequence in the Lower Lias of the Dorset Coast. (1923) (62)
- The Belemnite Marls of Charmouth, a Series in the Lias of the Dorset Coast (1928) (55)
- The Black Marl of Black Ven and Stonebarrow, in the Lias of the Dorset Coast (1926) (49)
- The geology of the Charmouth Cliffs, Beach, and Fore-Shore (41)
- A Critical Revision of the Rugose Corals described by W. Lonsdale in Murchison's ‘Silurian System’ (1927) (28)
- Catalogue of the Fossil Bryozoa in the Department of Geology, British Museum (Natural History). (26)
- III.—On some new Uniserial Cretaceous Cheilostome Polyzoa (1915) (24)
- The Green Ammonite Beds of the Dorset Lias (1936) (23)
- Trends in British Carboniferous corals. (20)
- A revision of the 'Cribrimorph' Cretaceous Polyzoa (1916) (19)
- The Lower Lias of Charmouth and the Vale of Marshwood (1932) (17)
- Evolution: A resultant (15)
- The Cretaceous Bryozoa (13)
- VIII.—Descriptions of the type-specimens of some carboniferous corals of the genera“Diphyphyllum,” “Stylastræa,” Aulophyllum,andChætetes (1930) (12)
- II.—On Herpetopora, a New Genus Containing Three New Species of Cretaceous Cheilostome Polyzoa (1914) (12)
- The Pelmatoporinae, an Essay on the Evolution of a Group of Cretaceous Polyzoa (11)
- IV.—The Lower Pliensbachian— `Carixian'—of Charmouth (1913) (11)
- The Evolution of Ammonites (11)
- II.—Some New Genera and Species of Cretaceous Cheilostome Polyzoa (1914) (10)
- VI.—The Genotypes of certain Polyzoan Genera (1917) (9)
- The Submerged forest at the Mouth of the river Char and the history of that River (9)
- IV.—Ludwig's ‘Corallen aus Paläolithischen Formationen’ and the Genotype of Disphyllum de Fromentel (1934) (8)
- Old age and extinction in fossils (8)
- VI.—The Jurassic forms of the ‘Genera’ Stomatopora. and Proboscina (1904) (6)
- VI.—Calcium Carbonate and Evolution in Polyzoa (1916) (6)
- XLIII.—On the genotype of Columnaria Goldfuss (1935) (5)
- V.—The Zone of Hoplites Interruptus (Brugdière) at Black Ven, Charmouth (1904) (5)
- XVI.—Some new Generic Names for Palæozoic Corals (1939) (5)
- The ibex-zone at Charmouth, and its relation to the zones near it (4)
- II.—On a Fossileferous Bed in the Selbornian of Charmouth (1903) (4)
- VIII.—Silurian corals.—The genera Xiphelasma, gen. nov., and Acervularia, Schweigger, with special reference to Tubiporites tubulatus, Schlotheim, and Diplophyllum cæspitosum, Hall (1931) (4)
- Homœomorphy in Fossil Corals (4)
- V.—On Stomatopora Antiqua, Haime, and its Related Liassic Forms (1905) (4)
- IV.—On some new Cenomanian and Turonian Cheilostome Polyzoa (1917) (4)
- Whitsun field meeting, 1936. The Lyme Regis district (1936) (4)
- Fletcherina, A New Name for a Palaeozoic Coral Genus (1955) (3)
- Demonstration at the British museum (natural history) South KensingtonSunday, 7th November, 1937 (1938) (3)
- III.—The Selbornian of Stonebarrow Cliff, Charmouth (1907) (3)
- VI.—The Evolution of Stomatopora dichotomoides (d'Orbigny) (1907) (3)
- XLIII.—On the Silurian Coral Tryplasma rugosum (Edwards and Haime) (1927) (3)
- The Use of the Term ‘Charmouthian’ (1912) (3)
- IV.—The Reptant Eleid Polyzoa (1906) (3)
- Persistence in fossils (3)
- Guide to the exhibition galleries of geology and palaeontology (1936) (3)
- III.—Palæontology and Bernard's Biological Theories (1912) (2)
- Form in fossils (2)
- Report of a visit to the exhibits of Polyzoa and corals in the Geological Department of the British Museum (Natural history) (2)
- Demonstration at the British Museum (natural history), South Kensington: Saturday, 9th March, 1935. “Mary Anning, ‘Fossilist’” (1936) (2)
- VI.—A Tabular View of the Cretaceous Polyzoa of the Family Idmoniidæ (1907) (1)
- V.—A Key to the Published Figures of the Cretaceous Forms of the Polyzoan genus Entalophora (1906) (1)
- II.—Carboniferous Zones Illustrated by Corals: an Exhibit at the Natural History Museum (1912) (1)
- On the genotype of Columnaria Goldfuss (1935) (1)
- The Kelestominæ: a Subfamily of Cretaceous Cribrimorph Polyzoa (1918) (1)
- Pal˦ontology and the public: A curator's aspirations (1)
- The post Eocene development of the Valley of the Char (1950) (1)
- Museums and their Type Specimens (1937) (1)
- Publication of Nomina Nuda (1935) (1)
- The genotypes of some polyzoan genera (1917) (1)
- Human Origin and Christian Doctrine (1935) (1)
- Dr. F. A. Bather, F.R.S. (1934) (1)
- The Species Concept in Palaeontology: An Analogy (1924) (0)
- The Tredington “Ichthyosaur” (1944) (0)
- I.—Development and Systematic Position of the Monticuliporoids . By E. R. Cumings. Bulletin of the Geological Society of America, vol. xxiii, pp. 357–70, pls. xix–xxii, 1912. (0)
- The Schrammen Collection of Cretaceous Silicisponglæ in the American Museum of Natural History. By Dr Marjorie O'Connell. Bull. American Mus. Nat. Hist., vol. xli, 1919. pp. 261, with 14 plates. (1920) (0)
- Reports and Proceedings (1924) (0)
- Crataniophyllum, A New Name for a Carboniferous Coral Genus (1957) (0)
- Report of an Excursion to Charmouth and Lyme Regis (0)
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