JOHN

See also:

• MORRIS
• MORRIS [MORRISON], CLARA (1849– )
• MORRIS, GOUVERNEUR (1752–1816)
• JOHN MORRIS (1810-1886)
• MORRIS, RICHARD (1833–1894)
• MORRIS, ROBERT (1734–1806)
• MORRIS, SIR LEWIS (1833–1907)
• MORRIS, WILLIAM (1834-1896)

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