Geological notebooks of Dr Ernest Lloyd-Jones
Conservation cost £160 per notebook
One of the two field notebooks by Ernest Lloyd-Jones, 1877-1884. (Archive ref: LDGSL/1034)
Ernest Lloyd-Jones, 1890s-1900s. (Archive ref: GSL/POR/49/17-01)
Dr Ernest Lloyd-Jones (?1863-1942) was elected a Fellow of the Society in 1903 and died on 16 September, 1942, at the age of seventy-nine years. He was a physician by profession but from an early age was interested in geology, as evidenced by his paper "On the Exploration of two Caves in the neighbourhood of Tenby", which was published in the Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society in 1882.
The Society's Library holds two field notebooks ‘taken on geological rambles’ mainly in South Wales, but including some entries for England, dated 24 May 1877 to 10 April 1884. They therefore must derive from when Lloyd-Jones was a pupil at Manchester Grammar School and his early years as an undergraduate at Cambridge University (where he enrolled in 1882). The volumes contain the observations which became the basis of his paper, including of Hoyle's Mouth Cave in Pembrokeshire.
These two notebooks were given to the Society by the executors of his daughter Audrey Lloyd-Jones in June 1989.
The leather spines of both have disintegrated, leaving the stitching of the pages exposed. Without the spine's covering/support the thread is becoming weak and the pages are loose.
Conservation
The inside contents of the notebooks are in relatively good condition considering their age. The old binding needs to be removed, the pages stitched back together and a new leather spine attached. Conservation cost is £160 per volume.
If you would like to sponsor the conservation of these items, please contact the Library team at library@geolsoc.org.uk.