See also:JOHN See also:JEREMIAH See also:BIGSBY (1792-1881)
, See also:English geologist and physician, the son of Dr See also:John See also:Bigsby, was See also:born at Notting-See also:ham on the 14th of See also:August 1792
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Educated at See also:Edinburgh, where he took the degree of M.D., he joined the See also:army medical service and was stationed at the Cape of See also:Good See also:Hope in 1817
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About a See also:year later he went to See also:Canada as medical officer to a See also:regiment, and having See also:developed much See also:interest in See also:geology he was commissioned in 1819 to See also:report on the geology of Upper Canada
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In 1822 he was appointed See also:British secretary and medical officer to the Boundary See also:Commission, and for several years he made extensive and important See also:geological researches, contributing papers to the See also:American See also:Journal of See also:Science and other scientific See also:journals; and later embodying an See also:account of his travels in a See also:book entitled The See also:Shoe and See also:Canoe (1850)
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Returning to See also:England in 1827 he practised See also:medicine at See also:Newark until 1846 when he removed to See also:London, where he remained until the end of his See also:life
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He now took an active interest in the Geological Society of London, of which he had been elected a See also:fellow in 1823
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In 1869 he was elected a fellow of the Royal Society, and in 1874 he was awarded the See also:Murchison See also:medal by the See also:council of the Geological Society
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During the last twenty years of his See also:long life he was continually at See also:work preparing, after the most painstaking See also:research, tabulated lists of the fossils of the Palaeozoic rocks
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His See also:Thesaurus Siluricus was published with the aid of the Royal Society in 1868; and the Thesaurus Devonico-Carboniferus in 1878
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In 1877 he founded the Bigsby medal to be awarded by the Geological Society of London, with the stipulation that the See also:receiver should not be more than See also:forty-five years old
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He died in London on the loth of See also:February 1881
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