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Herbert Leader Hawkins

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notes that Hawkins was 'Loved by many known to few'; and that while by the early 1920's Hawkins was 'poised for a major work on the whole
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for which he was later celebrated. In 1937, Hawkins was elected
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FRS
Lyell Medal
First World War
conscientious objector
military service
University of Reading
Lawrence Wager
Greenland
Everest
Fellow of the Royal Society
Echinoidea
Percival Allen
Echinoidea
"Herbert Leader Hawkins. 1887-1968"
Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society
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10.1098/rsbm.1970.0011
JSTOR
769592
Imperial War Museum
"Search Results"
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Presidents of the Geological Society of London
George Bellas Greenough
Henry Grey Bennet
William Blake
John MacCulloch
George Bellas Greenough

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