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JAMES PARKINSON (d. 1824)

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Originally appearing in Volume V20, Page 832 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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JAMES
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PARKINSON (d. 1824)  ,
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English palaeontologist, was educated for the medical profession, and practised in Hoxton, from about the
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year 1785 . He was a
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Fellow of the Royal
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College of Surgeons, and one of the
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original members of the
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Geological Society of
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London (1807) . He was author of numerous chemical and medical books, the most important of which were Organic Remains of a Former
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World (3 vols., 1804, 18o8, 1811), and Outlines of Oryctology (1822) .
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Parkinson died in London, on the 21st of
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December 1824 . See Hist. of Collections in Brit .
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Mus . Nat . Hist . Dep . (1904), PP . 315-316 .

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