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DAVIDSON, THOMAS (1817-1885)

This article appears in Volume V07, Page 864 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: DAH-DEM
DAVIDSON, THOMAS (1817-1885) , British palaeontologist, was born in Edinburgh on the 17th of May 1817. His parents possessed considerable landed property in Midlothian. Educated partly in the university at Edinburgh and partly in France, Italy and Switzerland, and early acquiring an
interest
  in natural history, he benefited greatly by acquaintance with foreign languages and literature, and with men of science in different countries. He was induced in 1837, through the influence of
Leopold
  von
Buch
 , to devote his
special
  attention to the brachiopoda, and in course of time he became the highest authority on this group. The
great
  task of his life was the Monograph of British Fossil Brachiopoda, published by the Palaeontographical Society (1850-1886). This
work
 , with supplements, comprises six quarto volumes with more than 200 plates
drawn
  on stone by the author. He also prepared an exhaustive memoir on "
Recent
  Brachiopoda," published by the Linnean Society. He was elected F.R.S. in 1857. He was awarded in 1865 the Wollaston medal by the Geological Society of London, and in 1870 a Royal medal by the Royal Society; and in 1882 the degree of LL.D. was conferred upon him by the university of St Andrews. He died at Brighton on the 14th of October 1885, bequeathing his fine collection of
recent
  and fossil brachiopoda to the British Museum.
See biography with portrait and
list
  of papers in Geol. Mag. for 1871, p. 145.


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