WILLIAM HELLIER

See also:

• BAILY, EDWARD HODGES (1788-1867)
• BAILY, FRANCIS (1774-1844)
• WILLIAM HELLIER BAILY (1819-1888)

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