See also:- WILLIAM
- WILLIAM (1143-1214)
- WILLIAM (1227-1256)
- WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
- WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
- WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
- WILLIAM, 13TH
WILLIAM See also:- THOMAS
- THOMAS (c. 1654-1720)
- THOMAS (d. 110o)
- THOMAS, ARTHUR GORING (1850-1892)
- THOMAS, CHARLES LOUIS AMBROISE (1811-1896)
- THOMAS, GEORGE (c. 1756-1802)
- THOMAS, GEORGE HENRY (1816-187o)
- THOMAS, ISAIAH (1749-1831)
- THOMAS, PIERRE (1634-1698)
- THOMAS, SIDNEY GILCHRIST (1850-1885)
- THOMAS, ST
- THOMAS, THEODORE (1835-1905)
- THOMAS, WILLIAM (d. 1554)
THOMAS See also:BLANFORD (1832-1905)
, See also:English geologist and naturalist, was See also:born in See also:London on the 7th of See also:October 1832
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He was educated in private See also:schools in See also:Brighton and See also:Paris, and with a view to the See also:adoption of a See also:mercantile career spent two years in a business See also:house at Civita Vecchia
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On returning to See also:England in 1851 he was induced to enter the newly established Royal School of Mines, which his younger See also:brother See also:- HENRY
- HENRY (1129-1195)
- HENRY (c. 1108-1139)
- HENRY (c. 1174–1216)
- HENRY (Fr. Henri; Span. Enrique; Ger. Heinrich; Mid. H. Ger. Heinrich and Heimrich; O.H.G. Haimi- or Heimirih, i.e. " prince, or chief of the house," from O.H.G. heim, the Eng. home, and rih, Goth. reiks; compare Lat. rex " king "—" rich," therefore " mig
- HENRY, EDWARD LAMSON (1841– )
- HENRY, JAMES (1798-1876)
- HENRY, JOSEPH (1797-1878)
- HENRY, MATTHEW (1662-1714)
- HENRY, PATRICK (1736–1799)
- HENRY, PRINCE OF BATTENBERG (1858-1896)
- HENRY, ROBERT (1718-1790)
- HENRY, VICTOR (1850– )
- HENRY, WILLIAM (1795-1836)
Henry F
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See also:Blanford (1834-1893), afterwards See also:head of the See also:Indian Meteorological See also:Department, had already joined; he then spent a See also:year in the See also:mining school at See also:Freiburg, and towards the See also:close of 1854 both he and his brother obtained posts on the See also:Geological Survey of See also:India
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In that service he remained for twenty-seven years, retiring in 1882
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He was engaged in various parts of India, in the Raniganj coalfield, in Bombay, and in the coalfield near Talchir, where boulders considered to have been See also:ice-See also:borne were found in the Talchir strata—a remarkable See also:discovery See also:con-firmed by subsequent observations of other geologists in See also:equivalent strata elsewhere
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His See also:attention was given not only to See also:geology but to See also:zoology, and especially to the See also:land-See also:mollusca and to the vertebrates
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In 1866 he was attached to the Abyssinian expedition, accompanying the See also:army to See also:Magdala and back; and in 1871-1872 he was appointed a member of the See also:Persian Boundary See also:Commission
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The best use was made of the exceptional opportunities of studying the natural See also:history of those countries
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For his many contributions to geological See also:science Dr Blanford was in 1883 awarded the See also:Wollaston See also:medal by the Geological Society of London; and for his labours on the zoology and geology of See also:British India he received in 1901 a royal medal from the Royal Society
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He had been elected F.R.S. in 1874, and was chosen See also:president of the Geological Society in 1888
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He was created C.I.E. in 1904
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He died in London on the 23rd of See also:June 1905
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His See also:principal publications were: Observations on the Geology and Zoology of See also:Abyssinia (187o), and See also:Manual of the Geology of India, with H
.
B
.
Medlicott (1879)
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See also:Biography, with bibliography and portrait, in Geological See also:Magazine, See also:January 1905
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