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Lapworth and all
“ Hatred of conditions by all means, but not of persons ” was how Lapworth quoted Lansbury.

Lapworth and research
Charles Lapworth completed this pioneering research in the Southern Uplands while employed as a schoolmaster for 11 years at the Episcopal Church school, Galashiels.
Lapworth received numerous awards for his research work, while for teaching he used the English Midlands as a setting for demonstrating the fieldwork techniques he had pioneered in his own research.

Lapworth and work
Lapworth received many awards for his work and contributions to geology.
Thrust faults were unrecognised until the work of Escher, Heim and Bertrand in the Alps working on the Glarus Thrust ; Lapworth, Peach and Horne working on parts of the Moine Thrust Scotland ; Törnebohm in the Scandinavian Caledonides and McConnell in the Canadian Rockies.
He died in December of the following year, but work continued until the main line reached Hockley Heath in May 1796, one mile ( 1. 6 km ) short of the first lock at Lapworth.
See H. W. Crosskey: his Life and Work, by RA Armstrong ( with chapter on his geological work by Prof. C Lapworth, 1895 ).
His magnificent work, Mechanismus der Gebirgsbildung ( 1878 ), is now regarded as a classic, and it served to inspire Professor C Lapworth in his brilliant researches on the Scottish Highlands ( see Geol.

Lapworth and .
The Ordovician, named after the Celtic tribe of the Ordovices, was defined by Charles Lapworth in 1879 to resolve a dispute between followers of Adam Sedgwick and Roderick Murchison, who were placing the same rock beds in northern Wales into the Cambrian and Silurian periods respectively.
Lapworth, recognizing that the fossil fauna in the disputed strata were different from those of either the Cambrian or the Silurian periods, realized that they should be placed in a period of their own.
* March 13 – Charles Lapworth, English geologist ( b. 1842 )
The terms nucleophile and electrophile were introduced by Christopher Kelk Ingold in 1929, replacing the terms cationoid and anionoid proposed earlier by A. J. Lapworth in 1925.
Charles Lapworth ( 20 September 1842 – 13 March 1920 ) was an English geologist who pioneered faunal analysis using index fossils and identified the Ordovician period.
Eventually, through patient mapping and innovative use of index fossil analysis, Lapworth showed that what was thought to be a thick sequence of Silurian rocks was in fact a much thinner series of rocks repeated by faulting and folding.
Following his researches in the Southern Uplands Charles Lapworth also devoted time to mapping near Durness in Scotland's northwest highlands and was first to propose the controversial theory that here older rocks were found lying above younger, suggesting complex folding or faulting as a cause.
Later Peach and Horne were dispatched to the area and their monumental memoir proved Lapworth correct.
His son Arthur Lapworth became a renowned chemist and his son Herbert a civil engineer, engineering geologist, stratigrapher and palaeontologist.
The glacial Lake Lapworth, was named for him by Leonard Johnston Wills in recognition of his original suggestion of its existence in 1898.
Papers relating to Charles Lapworth can be found at the University of Birmingham Special Collections.
The University of Birmingham also maintains the Lapworth Museum within the Aston Webb building on the main Edgbaston campus.
File: Lapworth Eric Gill bas relief. jpg | Bas relief in Lapworth parish church, 1928
The northern section from Kings Norton in the suburbs of Birmingham to Lapworth is level for the first, following the Birmingham Level, but then descends quite rapidly through the Lapworth flight of 18 locks, to reach the junction.
The southern section continues the descent with the final seven of the Lapworth locks, passing under the M40 motorway just before the final one.
The route would take it close to Warwick and Birmingham Canal at Lapworth, but the act did not include any provision for a direct connection with it, or with the River Avon at Stratford.

Archive and housed
The Academy ’ s numerous and diverse operations are housed in three facilities in the Los Angeles area: the headquarters building in Beverly Hills, which was constructed specifically for the Academy, and two Centers for Motion Picture Study – one in Beverly Hills, the other in Hollywood – which were existing structures restored and transformed to contain the Academy ’ s Library, Film Archive and other departments and programs.
The Archive of the British YMCA is housed at the University of Birmingham Special Collections.
The National Theatre Archive is housed in the same building, which is across the road from the Old Vic in the Cut, Waterloo, and used to house their workshops.
The Brakhage films, comprising his edited originals, intermediate elements, and other original material, are housed at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Film Archive, where a long-term project is underway to preserve and restore his entire film output.
They established the Astronomical Photographic Data Archive ( APDA ), housed at PARI and dedicated to the task of collecting, restoring, preserving and storing photographic data.
The campus also houses the University's Museum of Domestic Design and Architecture ( MoDA ) and formerly housed the national Lesbian and Gay Newsmedia Archive until it relocated to the Bishopsgate Institute in central London.
The Leona Gom Archive is housed at the University of Calgary.
The university also contained 5 industrial units and housed the Economic and Social Research Council's Data Archive.
* The National Jazz Archive is housed in Loughton Library ; it is the national repository and research centre for printed material, photographs and memorabilia relating to jazz, with an emphasis on British jazz.
The Archive is housed at the University of Sussex.
" Reynolds ' archives are also housed in part at the Earle and Akie Reynolds Archive at the University of California, Santa Cruz.
Carlos Chávez's manuscripts and papers are housed in the Music Division of the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts and in the National Archive of Mexico, in Mexico City.
Manuscripts and assorted documents are preserved in the Leo Baeck Institute Archive, housed in the museum building.
A collection of manuscripts, photos and recordings called the Gary Hickling Collection on Lotte Lehmann is housed at the Stanford Archive of Recorded Sound at Stanford University.
It was founded 30 September 1999 and officially opened 1 September 2000 in a renovated building and now houses historical documents of relevance to the Lika-Senj region which were formerly housed in the Regional Archive at Karlovac.
The Convention archives are housed in the Victorian Jazz Archive, which maintains a collection of Australian and overseas jazz materials.
The John LaTouche Archive, containing journals, family letters, scrapbooks of photographs and newspaper articles, is housed at Columbia University.
The Keats Archive, which includes original artwork and correspondence, is housed at the University of Southern Mississippi as part of the de Grummond Children ’ s Literature Collection.
Early 20th Century Kiowa recordings are housed in the Library of Congress's Archive of Folk Culture, Indiana University American Indian Studies Research Institute, The Oklahoma Historical Society's Oklahoma History Center, and the Kiowa Tribal Museum.
The Morfydd Llwyn Owen Archive is now housed at Cardiff University:
A Tithe Map of The Hundred of Crondall, dated 1846, is housed at the Hampshire County Archive in Winchester.
The collection of 8, 400 different Conlon glass negatives are housed in the John Rogers Archive www. johnrogersarchive. com.
* Hallwalls Archive housed in the University at Buffalo's Poetry Collection
The Archivo General de Indias ( General Archive of the Indies ), housed in the ancient merchants ' exchange, the Casa Lonja de Mercaderes, is the repository of valuable archival documents preserving the history of the Spanish Empire in the Americas and the Philippines.

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