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WILLIAM BOYD DAWKINS (1838– )

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Originally appearing in Volume V07, Page 874 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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WILLIAM See also:BOYD See also:DAWKINS (1838– )  , See also:English geologist and archaeologist, was See also:born at Buttington vicarage near See also:Welshpool, See also:Montgomeryshire, on the 26th of See also:December 1838 . Educated at Rossall School and See also:Oxford, he joined the See also:Geological Survey in 1862, and in 1869 became See also:curator of the See also:Manchester museum, a See also:post which he retained till 1890 . He was appointed See also:professor of See also:geology and palaeontology in See also:Owens See also:College, Manchester, in 1874 . He paid See also:special See also:attention to the question of the existence of See also:coal in See also:Kent, and in 1882 was selected by the Channel See also:tunnel See also:committee to make a special survey of the See also:French and English coasts . He was also employed in the See also:scheme of a tunnel beneath the See also:Humber . His See also:chief distinctions, however, were won in the realms of See also:anthropology by his researches into the lives of the See also:cave-dwellers of prehistoric times, labours which have See also:borne See also:fruit in his books Cave-See also:hunting (1874); See also:Early See also:Man in See also:Britain (188o); See also:British See also:Pleistocene See also:Mammalia (1866-1887) . He became a See also:Fellow of the Royal Society in 1867, and acted as See also:president of the anthropological See also:section of the British Association in 1882 and of the geological section in 1888 . ' The See also:commission completed its labours on the 1st of See also:July 1905, after having allotted 20,000,000 acres of See also:land among 90,000 See also:Indians and absorbed the five See also:Indian governments into the See also:national See also:system . The " five tribes " were the See also:Cherokee, See also:Chickasaw, See also:Choctaw, See also:Creek and See also:Seminole Indians .

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