About Frederic William Harmer
Lived 1835 – 1923 (aged 88). Frederic William Harmer was a British geologist.
Frederic William Harmer (24 April 1835 – 24 April 1923) was an English amateur geologist, palaeontologist, and naturalist.
He was born in Norwich and was educated at Norwich Grammar School.
Harmer was the mayor of Norwich in 1887–1888 and served there as an alderman from 1880 to 1902. He was awarded the Murchison Medal in 1902.
He made extensive investigations of the Pliocene and Pleistocene deposits in England's eastern and midland counties, as well as those deposits in Belgium and the Netherlands. and the zoologist Sir Sidney Frederic Harmer.
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