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WILLIAM HELLIER BAILY (1819-1888)

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Originally appearing in Volume V03, Page 221 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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WILLIAM HELLIER See also:BAILY (1819-1888)  , See also:English palaeontologist, See also:nephew of E . H . See also:Baily the sculptor, was See also:born at See also:Bristol on the 7th of See also:July 1819 . From 1837 to 1844 he was Assistant See also:Curator in the Bristol Museum, a See also:post he relinquished to join the See also:staff of the See also:Geological Survey in See also:London . In 1854 he became assistant naturalist, under See also:Edward See also:Forbes and afterwards under See also:Huxley . In 1857 he .was transferred to the Irish See also:branch of the Geological Survey, as acting palaeontologist, and retained this post until the end of his See also:life . He was the author of many papers on palaeontological subjects, and of notes on fossils in the explanatory See also:memoirs of the Geological Survey of See also:Ireland . He published (1867-1875) a useful See also:work entitled Figures of Characteristic See also:British Fossils, with Descriptive Remarks, of which only the first See also:volume, dealing with palaeozoic See also:species, was issued . The figures were all See also:drawn on See also:stone by himself . He died at Rathmines near See also:Dublin on the 6th of See also:August 1888 .

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