Publications
Notes on the Geology of Felpham, near Bognor Regis, by Edmond M. Venables, published 1931 in The Proceedings of the Geologists' Association London (no. 42 issue 4, article, pp.363-369) accessible at: University of Sussex Library View Online
Abstract:The area dealt with in this paper is included in Sheet 332 of the Geological Survey, taking in about I½ miles of the Sussex coast at Bognor Regis, Felpham, and Middleton. This area, with the surrounding country, has been described by Mr. Clement Reid. Dixon's account of the district is scanty, although not without interest; but, apart from these papers, little appears to have been written about the area. Topley's map in Dixon's "Geology of Sussex" is of considerable interest in connection with this paper, as will be shown in due course.
Note on the Chalk of Felpham, by Edmond M. Venables, published 1932 in The Proceedings of the Geologists' Association London (no. 43 issue 3, article, pp.223-224) View Online
Dr Frederick Dixon: His Researches in Sussex Geology, by Edmond M. Venable, F.G.S., published 1938 in Sussex County Magazine (vol. XII no. 11, article, pp.725-728) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2317] & The Keep [LIB/500183]
List of Sussex birds in the Bognor Regis Museum collection, by E. M. Venables, published 1957 (pamphlet, 18 pp., Bognor Regis Natural Science Society) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 4498] & British Library
The London Clay of Bognor Regis, by Edmond M. Venables, published 1962 in The Proceedings of the Geologists' Association London (no. 73 issue 3, article, pp.245-271) View Online
Abstract:Bognor Regis has long been noted for fossils of the London Clay, yet the literature devoted to it is scanty. Its geographical position gives it importance in the regional study of this deposit, and it is one of the few localities where the whole thickness of London Clay strata can be studied in sequence. A low angle of dip, and a strike oblique to the coastline, produce a wide field of research in the foreshore outcrop. A number of palaeontological horizons have been established, and the sequence of micro-faunas has been investigated for the first time. A distinct group of horizons, characterised by a largely terrestrial assemblage, has been recognised. This group has yielded a large new flora and a new vertebrate fauna. The first known fossil insect fauna of the London Clay, discovered in 1936, is now recorded.
Building Stones of Old Bognor, by E. M. Venables and A . F. Outen, published December 1969 (pamphlet, 24 pp., Bognor Regis Natural Science Society, ISBN-10: 095006520X & ISBN-13: 9780950065205) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 9798] & British Library & R.I.B.A. Library