DAWKINS, WILLIAM BOYD (1838 )

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DAWKINS, WILLIAM BOYD (1838 ) , English geologist and archaeologist, was born at Buttington vicarage near Welshpool, Montgomeryshire, on the 26th of December 1838. Educated at Rossall School and

Oxford

, he joined the

Geological

GEOLOGICAL

Survey in 1862, and in 1869 became curator of the Manchester museum, a post which he retained till 1890. He was appointed professor of geology and palaeontology in

Owens

OWENS, JOHN (1790-1846)

College, Manchester, in 1874. He paid

special

SPECIAL

attention to the question of the existence of coal in Kent, and in 1882 was selected by the Channel tunnel committee to make a

special

SPECIAL

survey of the French and English coasts. He was also employed in the

scheme

SCHEME (Lat. schema, Gr. oxfjya, figure, form, from the root axe, seen in exeiv, to have, hold, to be of such shape, form, &c.)

of a tunnel beneath the Humber. His

chief

CHIEF (from Fr. chef, head, Lat. caput)

distinctions, however, were won in the realms of anthropology by his researches into the lives of the cave-dwellers of prehistoric times, labours which have borne fruit in his books Cave-

hunting

HUNTING (the verbal substantive from " hunt "; O. Eng. huntian, hunta; apparently connected with O. Eng. hentan, Gothic hinpan, to capture, O.H.G. hunda,booty)

(1874); Early Man in Britain (188o); British Pleistocene

Mammalia

MAMMALIA (from Lat. mamma, a teat or breast)

(1866-1887). He became a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1867, and acted as president of the anthropological section of the British Association in 1882 and of the

geological

GEOLOGICAL

section in 1888.
' The commission completed its labours on the 1st of July 1905, after having allotted 20,000,000 acres of land among 90,000 Indians and absorbed the five Indian governments into the national system. The " five tribes " were the Cherokee,

Chickasaw

CHICKASAW

Choctaw

CHOCTAW

, Creek and Seminole Indians.

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