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Arthur Philemon Coleman fonds [textual record, graphic material]

Hierarchical level:

Fonds

Date:

1880-1940.

Reference:

R1530-0-0-E, MG30-B156

Type of material:

Textual material, Photographs, Art

Found in:

Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

102834

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Arthur Philemon Coleman fonds
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Fonds includes:

2 lower level description(s)
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Date(s):

1880-1940.

Place of creation:

No place, unknown, or undetermined

Extent:

1 cm of textual records.
9 photographs b&w.
2 watercolours.

Language of material:

English

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Fonds consists of three items of correspondence, 1910-1939, news clippings pertaining to his later career, Penrose Medal presentation address, 1936, dinner menu, 1910, invitation to posthumous exhibition of his watercolours, and obituary extract from Journal of Geology, 1940, 1 cm.

The fonds also consists of photographs of Coleman's family and general scenes, 1880-1939.

The fonds also consists of watercolours, illustrating views in Mexico.

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Coleman, Arthur Philemon, 1852-1939

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Coleman, Arthur Philemon, 1852-1939 : Arthur Philemon Coleman, geologist, was born at Lachute, Canada East, 4 April 1854. He was the son of the Rev. Francis Coleman and Emmeline Adams, a descendant of John Quincy Adams. He was educated at Victoria University, Cobourg, Ont. (B.A., 1876; M.A., 1880) and at Breslau University, Germany (Ph.D., 1881). Coleman served as professor of geology at Victoria University, 1882-1901; and at the University of Toronto, 1901-1922. He was the Dean of Arts, Toronto, 1919-1922.

Coleman was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 1900 and became its president in 1921. He was awarded the Society's Flavelle Medal in 1928. He was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of London in 1910 and won its Murchison Medal for distinguished research in geology. In 1915 he served as president of the Geological Society of America and was awarded the Penrose Medal in 1936. He received LL.D.s from Queen's University in 1913 and from the University of Western Ontario in 1922. He also received a D.Sc. from the University of Toronto in 1922. Coleman published three major works on geology between 1911 and 1926. He died, unmarried, in Toronto, 26 February 1939.

See also: The Canadian Who's Who, 1910, and Who's Who In Science, 1968.

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General note:

Received in 1984 from Dr. Winston Broadfoot, Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
Subject heading:

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Geologist - Canada, 1910-1940 Penrose Medal, 1936

Speeches, addresses, etc., Canadian, 1936 Mountcoleman (Alta.), 1910-1940
Source:

Private

Related control no.:

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1984-095 PIC
1984-122 NPC

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MG30-B156
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Textual records

[Consultation90 Open]

Volume [MG30 B 156] 1

[Consultation 90 Open]

Graphic (photo)

[Consultation90 Open]

Graphic (art)

[Consultation90 Open]

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Photographs and watercolours: No restrictions on use. Copyright expired. Credit: National Archives of Canada.

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Date modified:: 2024-06-27