Charles J. Bayzand

Career Natural Historian / Museum Professional

Biography Worked in the Department of Geology, University of Oxford in the 1910s-1940s. In the OUMNH Annual Report, 1911: 75 he is listed as being a Museum Assistant. He was also described by Sollas in an article in 1915-6 as the 'Museum Assistant' (ie of the Geological Department, Oxford University Museum of Natural History). He also worked on museum collections, including organizing other museums outside Oxford. He was recorded in the 1940 OUMNH annual report as still working at the museum [Alison Petch [as part of 'The Other Within' project 2006-9] 06/12/2006]

Biography References E.A. Vincent 'Geology and Mineralogy at Oxford 1860-1986 [1994] / http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0264-3960%281918%29208%3C63%3ATSOISI%3E2.0.CO%3B2-V / http://www.clarku.edu/ » piltdown/map_report_finds/horse_head.html / http://66.102.9.104/search?q=cache:NGym8q1FeXIJ:www.earthquakes.bgs.ac.uk/hazard/pdf/wl9917.pdf+c.j.+bayzand&hl=en / http://library.ox.ac.uk/

County Oxfordshire / Yorkshire

Relationship Field Collector / Other Owner / PRM Source

Archaeological or Ethnographic ArchaeologyOther

Dates active Unknown, active 1910-1940

Donated around 1940

English collections Stone axe and cast of ammonite

Oxford Uni Education Unknown

Oxford based Yes

Date in Oxford 19?? - 19??

English collection size 2

Connections W.E. Sawyer / Geology Department, Oxford University Museum of Natural History