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	David, Sir Tannatt William Edgeworth (1858 - 1934) Biographical Entry - Australian Dictionary of Biography Online (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		DAVID, Sir TANNATT WILLIAM EDGEWORTH (1858-1934), geologist, was born on 28 January 1858 at the rectory, St Fagans, Glamorganshire, Wales, eldest child of the Rev. William David, sometime fellow of Jesus College, Oxford, and his wife Margaret Harriette, née Thomson, from whose family came the names Tannatt and Edgeworth.
		David saw as a challenge the 1896 failure of the party sent by the Royal Society of London to bore a deep section at Funafuti, an atoll in the Ellice Islands.
		A portrait of David by John Longstaff is held at the University of Sydney and one by Norman Carter by the Royal Society of New South Wales.
	www.adb.online.anu.edu.au /biogs/A080242b.htm (2494 words)

	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Edgeworth, (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		David came to Australia in 1882 as an assistant geological surveyor.
		An expedition led by Sir Edgeworth David in 1897 proved the Darwinian theory of atoll...
		From Edgeworth to Vickrey to Mirrlees: The Vickrey Lecture.
	www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=Edgeworth, (897 words)

	The man who tried to warn us all - Union of Concerned Scientists - Care2.com
		At the end of the 19th century, Tannatt William Edgeworth David was already one of the country's most respected geologists and explorers.
		David Branagan, a retired geologist and author of 2005 biography TW Edgeworth David: A Life, said David's scientific work has been overshadowed by adventures that, in his day, made him more famous than Sir Donald Bradman.
		Dr Flannery, winner of the 1990 Royal Society of NSW Edgeworth David Medal for Outstanding Research, wrote in Branagan's biography that David was one of his heroes.
	www.care2.com /c2c/groups/disc.html?gpp=116&pst=609731 (856 words)

	Edgeworth David (1858-1934) - About Us - The University of Sydney
		David graduated B.A. from Oxford University in 1881, having been particularly stimulated by the geology lectures given by Joseph Prestwich, and he followed this by attending lectures by J.W. Judd at the Royal College of Science in London.
		David carried out good work in the New England area, and later in the Hunter Valley, and his mapping is still the key to this area.
		Although David became renowned as a teacher, and influenced many future leaders in the Australian geological community, his fame in the general community was the result of several periods away from the University.
	www.science.usyd.edu.au /about_us/fame_david.shtml (466 words)

	The Royal Society of NSW
		The Edgeworth David Medal is awarded for distinguished contributions by a young scientists under the age of thirty-five (35) years for work done mainly in Australia or its territories; or, contributing to the advancement of Australian science.
		Halloran's gift for the establishment of the Edgeworth David Medal, that was to be awarded annually to scientists under the age of 35 years.
		The first award of the Edgeworth David Medal was made at the Annual General Meeting of the Society in April 1949.
	nsw.royalsoc.org.au /awards/edgeworth.html (234 words)

	ddavid (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		TWE David was born in Wales in 1858 and died in Sydney in 934, he had been the geological Surveyor for the NSW dept of Mines, his appointment to Sydney University was confirmed in May 1891.
		Davids wife and two senior students, Walter George Woolnough and William Poole accompanied him on the expedition which was supported by the Royal Society of London.
		Two perilous endeavours were undertaken with Davids leadership; one the ascent of Erebus, a 13,000ft Volcano, and the other was a 2 - 4 month journey to the magnetic north pole.
	www-personal.usyd.edu.au /~gbar6228/ddavid.htm (1543 words)

	ex libris Steve Sorrell
		The geologist and Antarctic explorer Tannatt Edgeworth David was born in Glamorganshire, Wales, in 1858, son of the Reverend William David and Margaret Thomson.
		Edgeworth David's appointments at the University of Sydney included Professor of Geology and Physical Geography, 1891-1924, Chairman of the Professorial Board, and Dean of the Faculty of Science.
		The main David Papers with their geological emphasis are held at the University of Sydney.
	www.crocoite.com /exlibris/david.htm (227 words)

	Professor Tannatt William Edgeworth David - Academic Board - The University of Sydney
		At the last meeting of the Senate held on the 22nd of December, a letter was received from Sir Edgeworth David resigning his position as Professor of Geology.
		At the last meeting of the Professorial Board held in December 1924, the resignation of Sir Edgeworth David was received.
		Sir Tannatt William Edgeworth David by Judith Fletcher, c1916, courtesy of National Library of Australia.
	www.usyd.edu.au /ab/about/historyEdgeworth.shtml (466 words)

	Pictures Catalogue - Marston, George. Portrait of T.W. Edgeworth David [picture] / - fullindex.htm test
		Portrait of T.W. Edgeworth David [picture] / George Marston.
		Portrait of Professor T. Edgeworth David (later Sir Edgeworth David) by George Marston, both members of the British Antarctic Expedition of 1907-1909, led by Ernest Shackleton.
		T.W. Edgeworth David, with Douglas Mawson and A.F. Mackay reached the South Magnetic Pole on 16th January 1909.
	nla.gov.au /nla.pic-an20023523 (170 words)

	Edgeworth-Kuiper Belt and Dust Disk
		On July 29, 2005, a team of astronomers (including Mike Brown, Chad Trujillo, and David Rabinowitz) announced the discovery of a planetary body (Eris or 2003 UB313) that is now estimated to be around three percent larger than Pluto (NASA press release; latest news; and Brown et al, 2005, in pdf).
		David C. Hewitt, co-discoverer of the first EKO after Pluto and Charon, has a plot of the projected orbits of the various types of EKOs.
		David Seal (a mission planner and engineer at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory at CalTech) has a web site that generates simulated images of the Sun, planets, and major moons from different perspectives and at different times of the year.
	www.solstation.com /stars/kuiper.htm (2589 words)

	Australian Museum Collections - Asia, Africa, Americas - Sword of Friendship
		Tannatt Edgeworth David, professor of Geology at the University of Sydney and a Trustee of the Australian Museum, defended the Japanese party and assisted them in their negotiations with the local authorities and businesses.
		Edgeworth David had done fieldwork in Antarctica with Douglas Mawson and freely shared his knowledge and experiences with Shirase.
		In 1979, Mary Edgeworth David, the professor's daughter, presented the sword to the Australian Museum after it had been restored in Japan.
	www.amonline.net.au /collections/asia/friendship.htm (570 words)

	Australian Museum - The Story of the Shirase Sword
		Shortly after Shirase?s arrival in Sydney, Professor Edgeworth David spoke in an interview with the Sydney Morning Herald about the folly of arriving too late in the autumn in Antarctica as the Japanese had done, but he admired their achievement in handling the harsh conditions.
		Edgeworth David knew the Antarctic well and he and Douglas Mawson were a members of the first team to reach the Magnetic South Pole two years earlier.
		Edgeworth David was also of crucial assistance to the Japanese in gaining the co-operation of Sydney authorities and businesses.
	www.austmus.gov.au /archive.cfm?id=403 (1233 words)

	Rothbury Colliery (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Edgeworth David's observations and comments on this outcrop and his shaft were published on page 147 of the Mines Department 1887 Annual Report.
		David Scott Mitchell died in 1907 and left the bulk of his property and business interests to his sister, Augusta Maria Merewether less the bequest of his personal library and an amount of £70,000-0-0 ($140,000.00) to the NSW State Library.
		Professor T.W. Edgeworth David had directed and nominated locations for such tests, and he had requested that trenching, tunnelling, boring and shaft sinking be made to make fair estimates of depth and to gauge values.
	www.amol.org.au /newcastle/greta/roth.html (16420 words)

	Talgai and Piltdown—The Common Context 1
		In a letter which he wrote to Edgeworth David on April 1st, Crawford enclosed a photograph of the skull and stated that "Having been [193] told that the skull was of considerable value I sent a similar photo to England to ascertain what it was worth.
		His justification for writing to David, that he knows David to be "an authority and interested in such matters", is something which, considering David's eminence as a geologist, a layman might well have gleaned from newspapers of the period.
		David Smith, Department of Anthropology, University of Sydney Dr. Randall Albury, School of History and Philosophy of Science, University of New South Wales; Dr. Noel Weekes, Department of History, University of Sydney; the late Professor N.W.G. Macintosh, formerly of the Department of Anatomy, University of Sydney; and especially Mrs.
	www.clarku.edu /~piltdown/map_prim_suspects/SMITH/Smith_prosecution/talgai_and_piltdown.html (15738 words)

	Tuvalu: Funafuti Impressions
		In 1897 a scientific expedition under the leadership of Professor T. Edgeworth David went to Funafuti, Tuvalu, to ascertain the structure of coral atolls by putting down a diamond-drill bore
		David made friends with all the natives and kept a diary of her observations and of all the small events that made up life for the three months she spent on Funafuti.
		Edgeworth David is on the far right (sitting).
	www.janesoceania.com /tuvalu_impressions (4721 words)

	AAS-Biographical memoirs-Browne
		David's discovery in 1914 of signs of late Palaeozoic glaciation in the Seaham area of the Hunter Valley led Browne, and others, to investigate problems of the age of the glacial beds.
		David, meanwhile, had resolved to concentrate on finishing the geological map and issuing it with explanatory notes, a decision that may have expressed a doubt in his capacity to complete the book.
		David had demonstrated evidences of glacial action in the high country and related these to a three-fold pattern.
	www.science.org.au /academy/memoirs/browne.htm (5803 words)

	A History of the Greta Coal Measures - Introduction
		David Gallagher (senior) was also an early Cessnock resident, and was the first flsmith in the area.
		From his inspection of this syndicate's bore on his visit on 25th February 1888 Mr Edgeworth David revised his earlier estimation and reported that the seam was thirteen feet five inches (13 ft 5 ins) thick dipping in a south south-west direction at one foot in eighteen feet, (1 in 18).
		In 1891 Mr T.W. Edgeworth David advised the Mines Department that he had examined this shaft, and that he also found there a tunnel about 100 feet long, and which ran from the outcrop to the bottom of this shaft.
	www.amol.org.au /newcastle/greta/intro.html (9555 words)

	Mawson's mentor, in from the cold - National - smh.com.au
		Sir Tannatt William Edgeworth David was a man of huge and diverse talents: Antarctic explorer, world-class geologist, war hero, leading academic.
		That was the question which David Branagan, a retired geologist, set out to answer in a new biography - the first major attempt to assess the life and achievements of this remarkable Australian since David's daughter, Molly, published her version in 1937.
		In 1908, David was one of the four men who conquered Mount Erebus, the 4000-metre, ice-covered peak on Ross Island.
	www.smh.com.au /news/national/mawsons-mentor-in-from-the-cold/2005/10/10/1128796467121.html (947 words)

	Tuvalu History
		In 1897 another party of scientists led by Professor Edgeworth David of the University of Sydney carried the boring to a depth of 200 metres while the following year a third group managed to obtain a sample from a depth of 340 metres.
		All the samples obtained were found to contain traces of shallow water organisms, but the drilling was never able to reach the volcanic base of Funafuti.
		David, the wife of Professor Edgeworth David wrote a book describing her experiences in Funafuti.
	www.tuvaluislands.com /history.htm (2335 words)

	Edgeworth Family Genealogy Forum
		Re: Nathaniel Lovell Edgeworth 1789-1872 - sharon ballenger 8/16/05
		Re: Nathaniel Lovell Edgeworth 1789-1872 - sharon ballenger 8/17/05
		Re: Nathaniel Lovell Edgeworth 1789-1872 - Betty McCracken 2/12/01
	genforum.genealogy.com /edgeworth (1624 words)

	EDGEWORTH'S FIRST CENTURY (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		The announcement last Saturday, 27th February of the discovery of the trans-Neptunian object 1999 CZ118 by British astronomer David Jewitt and co-workers using the huge 3.6-metre diameter Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope on top of Mauna Kea in Hawaii, brings the total number of these planetary building blocks or giant comets to 100.
		The existence of the Edgeworth-Kuiper belt was first proposed by the Irish astronomer Kenneth Edgeworth in 1943.
		Edgeworth was of the family which were cousins of the authoress Maria Edgeworth of Edgeworthstown in County Longford.
	www.arm.ac.uk /press/Edgeworths-First-Century.html (171 words)

	Australian Museum Collections - Asia, Africa, Americas - Sword of Friendship
		Tannatt Edgeworth David, professor of Geology at the University of Sydney and a Trustee of the Australian Museum, defended the Japanese party and assisted them in their negotiations with the local authorities and businesses.
		Edgeworth David had done fieldwork in Antarctica with Douglas Mawson and freely shared his knowledge and experiences with Shirase.
		In 1979, Mary Edgeworth David, the professor's daughter, presented the sword to the Australian Museum after it had been restored in Japan.
	www.austmus.gov.au /collections/asia/friendship.htm (570 words)

	Australian Antarctic Division - Tannatt William Edgeworth David
		Tannatt William Edgeworth David was born on the 28
		David was appointed as a Professor of Geology at the
		David also led the first team to reach the Magnetic South Pole on this expedition.
	www.aad.gov.au /default.asp?casid=6660 (192 words)

	History of Edgeworth
		This is in honour of the geologist William Tannatt Edgeworth David who, arriving in NSW in 1882, pioneered geological surveying of the coal seams in the Hunter Valley.
		Smith was the headmaster at this newly-established school and there were 44 pupils on the roll.
		Edgeworth had its real beginning in the early 1890's, Young Wallsend Colliery began producing in that year.
	www.lakemac.infohunt.nsw.gov.au /library/lhist/suburb/lmp&p/edgeworth.htm (501 words)

	Edgeworth, New South Wales - Travelmate
		Edgeworth might be on the western fringes of the second largest city in NSW, but, along with most Newcastle suburbs or nearby towns, it is not far in terms of time or distance from the action.
		Edgeworth is only 20 minutes from the surf, from the northern reaches of Lake Macquarie and from the mountain forest parks.
		In short, Edgeworth is an appealing option as a base for a holiday in one of the state’s most diverse tourist regions.
	www.travelmate.com.au /Places/Places.asp?TownId=3620 (280 words)

	The Tannatt Family
		His son David Lloyd ap Griffith ap Jevan Vichan of Abertanat continued the practice as did his grandson Jevan Lloyd ap David Lloyd of Abertanat.
		Sir Tannatt William Edgeworth DAVID the famous explorer and geologist, was born on 28th January 1858, at St Fagans, Glamorganshire, Wales, eldest child of the Rev. William David, and his wife Margaret Harriette, née Thomson, from whose family came the names Tannatt and Edgeworth.
		During an expedition led by Ernest Shackleton, parties led by T. Edgeworth David became the first to climb Mount Erebus and to reach the South Magnetic Pole.
	www.tannatt.com (492 words)

	Verbatim - 30/07/2005: Anne Edgeworth
		Anne Edgeworth was born in 1921, in Tasmania.
		A published poet, Anne is in involved in conservation and peace movements, and in community broadcasting.
		In recent years, she also travelled to Antarctica, to follow in the footsteps of her grandfather, the geologist and explorer Tannatt Edgeworth David, who accompanied Shackleton's expedition to the Antarctic in 1907.
	www.abc.net.au /rn/history/verbatim/stories/s1425594.htm (146 words)

	Filipino Community @ Tuvalu
		In 1897 another party of scientists led by Professor Edgeworth David of the
		The boreholes can still be seen to this day, at the site now called David's Drill.
		David, the wife of Professor Edgeworth David wrote a book describing her experiences in
	www.angelfire.com /blog/filipinocommunity_tv (352 words)

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