Abstract As we have seen, the main ‘professional’ mapping of the Lakes was more or less completed by the 1880s, though the Survey continued to publish memoirs on the region for some time after finishing the fieldwork, before returning to the region in the twentieth century to revisit some of the old questions; and then it undertook a major resurvey after 1982 (see Chapter 14). So it was that much of the detailed research from the 1880s to the outbreak of World War I was undertaken by ‘amateurs’. Of these, the most important were Nicholson, whose ideas were discussed in Chapter 3, John Postlethwaite (see Chapter 6), John Edward Marr (1857–1933) and J. F. N. Green (see Chapter 6). There are good archival sources on Marr, in that all 65 of his field notebooks and an unnumbered ‘journal’ survive at the Sedgwick Museum, together with a few letters. 1 The notebooks reveal that from 1874 until 1927 Marr spent a substantial part of almost every year in the Lakes; and he wrote what became the standard book on Lakeland geology for many years ( Marr 1916 ). 2 To my knowledge, rather little on Green has survived beyond his published works. Marr’s family came from Bolton-le-Sands in Lancashire, and he attended school at Lancaster Grammar. While there, he made the acquaintance of the Surveyor Richard Tiddeman, then working in the district, and accompanied him on several field-trips. Marr’s unnumbered journal (for 1874–1876) shows that he was examining human

Abstract Phillips entered Corpus Christi College (CCC), Cambridge, 14 as an Exhibitioner in September 1920. The following year, he obtained a first class in the Mathematical Tripos, Part I, and was awarded the Manners Scholarship. In 1922 he was awarded a Foundation Scholarship (at CCC) and the Bishop Green Cup, and was appointed to the position of Temporary Demonstrator in Petrology at the Sedgwick Museum, under the supervision of Alfred Harker (1859-1939; FRS, 1902), Reader in Petrology. Phillips was also elected to membership of the Geologists’ Association in May 1922. The following year he gained his BA, obtaining a first class in Part I of the Natural Sciences Tripos (geology, mineralogy, chemistry and physics). He was again awarded the Bishop Green Cup and, in addition, the Wiltshire Prize for Geology with Mineralogy. 15 He subsequently graduated with a first class in Part II (geology) of the Natural Sciences Tripos in 1924, and was awarded the Cowell Scholarship (CCC). The following year Phillips began the research for his PhD dissertation, The Geology of the Shetland Islands, with Special Reference to the Petrology of the Igneous Rocks ( Phillips 1927 a ), under the supervision of Harker with ‘assistance’ from Cecil Edgar Tilley (1894-1973; FRS, 1938), who was at that time University Demonstrator in Petrology. Phillips was also appointed Student Demonstrator in Mineralogy (1925-1928), under the supervision of the Professor of Mineralogy, Arthur Hutchinson (1866-1937; FRS, 1922) 16 with Robert Heron Rastall (1871-1950) and Thomas Crawford Phemister (1902-1982) as his fellow demonstrators.