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HENRY ALLEYNE NICHOLSON (1844-1899)

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Originally appearing in Volume V19, Page 657 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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HENRY ALLEYNE See also:NICHOLSON (1844-1899)  , See also:British palaeontologist and zoologist, son of Dr See also:John See also:Nicholson, a biblical See also:scholar, was See also:born at See also:Penrith on the rrth of See also:September 1844 . He was educated at See also:Appleby See also:Grammar School and at the See also:universities of See also:Gottingen (Ph.D., 1866) and See also:Edinburgh (D.Sc., 1867; M.D., 1869) . See also:Geology had See also:early attracted his See also:attention, and his first publication was a thesis for his D.Sc. degree On the Geology of See also:Cumberland and Westmoreland (1868) . In 1871 he was appointed See also:professor of natural See also:history in the university of See also:Toronto, in 1874 professor of See also:biology in the See also:Durham See also:College of See also:Science and in 1875 professor of natural history in the university of St :See also:Andrews . This last See also:post he held until 1882, when he became regius professor of natural history in the university of See also:Aberdeen . He was elected F.R.S. in 1897 . His See also:original See also:work was mainly on fossil invertebrata (See also:graptolites, stromatoporoids and See also:corals) ; but he did much See also:field work, especially in the See also:Lake See also:district, where he laboured in See also:company with Professor R . See also:Harkness and afterwards with Dr J.E . Mari . He was awarded the See also:Lyell See also:Medal by the See also:Geological Society in 1888 . He died at Aberdeen on the 19th of See also:January 1899 . PunL IC ATIoNS.—See also:Ancient See also:Life-History of the See also:Earth (1897); See also:Manual of See also:Zoology (of which there were 7 See also:editions) and other See also:text-books of Zoology; Manual of Palaeontology (1872, 3rd ed., 2 vols., with R .

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ker, 1889); Monograph of the See also:Silurian Fossils of the See also:Girvan District in See also:Ayrshire (with R . See also:Etheridge, jun.) (1878—1880); Mono-graph of the British Stromatoporoids in Palaeontograph . See also:Soc . (1886—1892) . Obituary, with portrait, by Dr G . J . Hinde, in Geol . Mag . (See also:March 1899) .

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