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HENRY HICKS (1837-1899)

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Originally appearing in Volume V13, Page 448 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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HENRY See also:HICKS (1837-1899)  , See also:British physician and geologist, was See also:born on the 26th of May 1837 at St See also:David's, in See also:Pembroke-See also:shire, where his See also:father, See also:Thomas See also:Hicks, was a surgeon . He studied See also:medicine at See also:Guy's See also:Hospital, See also:London, qualifying as M.R.C.S. in 1862 . Returning to his native See also:place he commenced a practice which he continued until 1871, when he removed to See also:Hendon . He then devoted See also:special See also:attention to See also:mental diseases, took the degree of M.D. at St See also:Andrews in 1878, and continued his medical See also:work until the See also:close of his See also:life . In See also:Wales he had been attracted to See also:geology by J . W . See also:Salter (then palaeontologist to the See also:Geological Survey), and his leisure See also:time was given to the study of the older rocks and fossils of See also:South Wales . In See also:conjunction with Salter, he established in 1865 the Menevian See also:group (See also:Middle See also:Cambrian) characterized by the trilobite Paradoxides . Subsequently Hicks contributed a See also:series of important papers on the Cambrian and See also:Lower See also:Silurian rocks, and figured and described many new See also:species of fossils . Later he worked at the Pre-Cambrian rocks of St David's, describing the Dimetian (granitoid See also:rock) and the Pebidian (volcanic series), and his views, though contested, have been generally accepted . At Hendon Dr Hicks gave much attention to the See also:local geology and also to the See also:Pleistocene deposits of the Denbighshire caves . For a few years before his See also:death he had laboured at the Devonian rocks .

With his keen See also:

eye for fossils he detected organic remains in the Morte slates, previously regarded as unfossiliferous, and these he regarded as including representatives of Lower Devonian and Silurian . His papers were mostly published in the Geol . Mag. and Quart . _Iowa . Geol . See also:Soc . He was elected F.R.S. in 1885, and See also:president of the Geological Society of London 1896-1898 . He died at Hendon on the 18th of See also:November 1899 .

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