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THOMAS DAVIDSON (1817-1885)

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Originally appearing in Volume V07, Page 864 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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THOMAS See also:DAVIDSON (1817-1885)  , See also:British palaeontologist, was See also:born in See also:Edinburgh on the 17th of May 1817 . His parents possessed considerable landed See also:property in Midlothian . Educated partly in the university at Edinburgh and partly in See also:France, See also:Italy and See also:Switzerland, and See also:early acquiring an See also:interest in natural See also:history, he benefited greatly by acquaintance with See also:foreign See also:languages and literature, and with men of See also:science in different countries . He was induced in 1837, through the See also:influence of See also:Leopold von See also:Buch, to devote his See also:special See also:attention to the See also:brachiopoda, and in course of See also:time he became the highest authority on this See also:group . The See also:great task of his See also:life was the Monograph of British Fossil Brachiopoda, published by the Palaeontographical Society (1850-1886) . This See also:work, with supplements, comprises six See also:quarto volumes with more than 200 plates See also:drawn on See also:stone by the author . He also prepared an exhaustive memoir on " See also:Recent Brachiopoda," published by the Linnean Society . He was elected F.R.S. in 1857 . He was awarded in 1865 the See also:Wollaston See also:medal by the See also:Geological Society of See also:London, and in 1870 a Royal medal by the Royal Society; and in 1882 the degree of LL.D. was conferred upon him by the university of St See also:Andrews . He died at See also:Brighton on the 14th of See also:October 1885, bequeathing his See also:fine collection of recent and fossil brachiopoda to the British Museum . See See also:biography with portrait and See also:list of papers in Geol . Mag. for 1871, p .

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