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See also: English naturalist and palaeontologist, was See also: born on the 15th of See also: December '82o
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He was apprenticed in 1835 to See also: James de Carle
See also: Sowerby, and was engaged in See also: drawing and See also: engraving the plates for Sowerby's See also: Mineral Conchology, the Supplement to his English Botany, and, other Natural See also: History See also: works
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In 1842 he was employed for a See also: short See also: time by Sedgwick in arranging the fossils in the Woodwardian Museum at Cambridge, and he accompanied the professor on several See also: geological expeditions (1842-1845) into See also: Wales
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In 1846 he was appointed on the staff of the Geological Survey and worked under See also: Edward See also: Forbes until 1854; he was then appointed palaeontologist to the survey and gave his chief See also: attention to the palaeozoic fossils, spending much time in Wales and the border counties
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He contributed the palaeontological portion to A
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C
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See also: Ramsay's Memoir on the Geology of See also: North Wales (1866), assisted Murchison in his See also: work on Siluria (1854 and later See also: editions), and Sedgwick by preparing A See also: Catalogue of the Collection of See also: Cambrian and See also: Silurian Fossils contained in the Geological Museum of the University of Cambridge (1873)
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See also: Salter prepared several of the Decades of the Geological Survey and became the leading authority on See also: Trilobites, contributing to the Palaeontographical Society four parts of A Monograph of See also: British Trilobites (1864-1867), He resigned his See also: post on the Geological Survey in 1863, and died on the 2nd of See also: August 1869
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