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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 army medical service and was stationed at the Cape of See also: Good Hope in 1817
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About a See also: year later he went to See also: Canada as medical officer to a regiment, and having See also: developed much See also: interest in geology he was commissioned in 1819 to 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 Commission, and for several years he made extensive and important See also: geological researches, contributing papers to the See also: American Journal of Science and other scientific See also: journals; and later embodying an account of his travels in a See also: book entitled The Shoe and Canoe (1850)
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Returning to See also: England in 1827 he practised See also: medicine at 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 Murchison medal by the council of the Geological Society
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During the last twenty years of his long life he was continually at See also: work preparing, after the most painstaking 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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