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FREDERICK RICHARD COWPER REED was born in London on June 27, 1869, and died in Cambridge on February 8, 1946. From Harrow he went to Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1888, and was later elected a scholar. He was placed in the first class of the Natural Sciences Tripos Part 1 (1891) and Part 2 (1892), and was awarded the Harkness scholarship for geology and palæontology. In 1901 he gained the Sedgwick Prize for his work on “The Geological History of the Rivers of East Yorkshire“ and in 1914 took the degree of Sc.D. Reed was appointed assistant to the Woodwardian professor of geology in 1892, and retained that post for twenty-five years, his chief duties being curatorial in the Woodwardian (later the Sedgwick) Museum. After his retirement he was able to devote himself entirely to research.
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WOODS, H. Dr. F. R. Cowper Reed. Nature 157, 400 (1946). https://doi.org/10.1038/157400a0
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