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See also: English geologist and palaeontologist, was See also: born at Homerton, See also: London, on the 19th of See also: February 1810
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He was brought up to the business of a pharmaceutical chemist
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Early in See also: life he published observations on the See also: Tertiary and See also: Post-Tertiary deposits in the See also: Thames valley, and on fossil See also: plants and various invertebrata, in the See also: Magazine of Natural See also: History, the See also: Annals of Nat
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Hist. and other See also: journals
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In 1845 he issued his See also: Catalogue of See also: British Fossils (2nd ed., 1854), a See also: work of essential service to geology
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He was also author (with See also: John Lycett) of A Monograph of the
See also: Mollusca from the See also: Great Oolite (Palaeontographical See also: Soc., 1850-1853)
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In 1855 he became professor of Geology in University See also: College, London, a post which he held until 1877
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In 1868–187o and 1877–1878 he was president of the Geologists' Association
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He was awarded the See also: Lyell medal by the See also: Geological Society in 1876, and was made Hon
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M.A. of Cambridge in 1878 in acknowledgment of his services as deputy Woodwardian professor during the final illness of Sedgwick
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He died in London on the 7th of See also: January 1886
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