. Bulletin of the Natural Histort Museum. Geology series. LOWER LIAS OF ROBIN HOOD'S BAY 83. Fig. 2 The Robin Hood's Bay foreshore at low tide, looking north-west from the top of Ravenscar (above Peak) at the south-eastern end of the bay. Robin Hood's Bay town is immediately above the foreshore in the centre-right of the photograph. Howarth photograph. 28 September 1999. collected with sufficient accuracy to enable the sequences of ammo- nite 'hemerae' to be compared at the north-western and south-eastern ends of Robin Hood's Bay. Initially the project was intended to be a thesis for a hi
. Bulletin of the Natural Histort Museum. Geology series. LOWER LIAS OF ROBIN HOOD'S BAY 83. Fig. 2 The Robin Hood's Bay foreshore at low tide, looking north-west from the top of Ravenscar (above Peak) at the south-eastern end of the bay. Robin Hood's Bay town is immediately above the foreshore in the centre-right of the photograph. Howarth photograph. 28 September 1999. collected with sufficient accuracy to enable the sequences of ammo- nite 'hemerae' to be compared at the north-western and south-eastern ends of Robin Hood's Bay. Initially the project was intended to be a thesis for a higher degree at Cambridge University, but the detailed mapping, bed-by-bed description and collecting during 1928-1930 were submitted as a dissertation in support of a fellowship applica- tion at King's College in late 1930. This was not successful, and Bairstow was preparing for a second application in 1931, when the offer of a permanent post at The Natural History Museum in South Kensington (then the British Museum (Natural History)), with the opportunity to continue work indefinitely on the Lower Lias of Robin Hood's Bay, appealed to him more than a fellowship at Cambridge of six years duration. In fact, during his early years at the Museum he was elected to a three-year visiting Fellowship at King's College in 1932-35. He started at the Museum in October 1931, and although initially put in charge of fossil echinoderms and later Coleoidea (including belemnites), he was able to continue work on Robin Hood's Bay until his retirement in June 1965. He continued to work at the Museum until 1985, when he moved to Todmorden, Yorkshire, where he died on 10 August 1995. The meticulous attention to detail that Bairstow lavished on the description, collecting and mapping of the Lower Lias of Robin Hood's Bay, made it unlikely that he would produce a final descrip- tion with which he would be satisfied. It is fortunate, therefore, that for the Cambridge fellowship dissertation of 1930 he
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