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Encyclopedia Britannica



HICKS, HENRY (1837-1899)

This article appears in Volume V13, Page 448 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: HEG-HIG
HICKS, HENRY (1837-1899) , British physician and geologist, was born on the 26th of May 1837 at St
David
 's, in Pembroke-shire, where his father,
Thomas
  Hicks, was a surgeon. He studied
medicine
  at Guy's
Hospital
 
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, London, qualifying as M.R.C.S. in 1862. Returning to his native place he commenced a practice which he continued until 1871, when he removed to Hendon. He then devoted
special
  attention to mental diseases, took the degree of M.D. at St Andrews in 1878, and continued his medical
work
  until the close of his life. In Wales he had been attracted to geology by J. W. Salter (then palaeontologist to the Geological Survey), and his leisure time was given to the study of the older rocks and fossils of
South
  Wales. In conjunction with Salter, he established in 1865 the Menevian group (Middle Cambrian) characterized by the trilobite Paradoxides. Subsequently Hicks contributed a
series
  of important papers on the Cambrian and Lower
Silurian
  rocks, and figured and described many new species of fossils. Later he worked at the Pre-Cambrian rocks of St
David
 's, describing the Dimetian (granitoid
rock
 ) and the Pebidian (volcanic
series
 ), and his views, though contested, have been generally accepted. At Hendon Dr Hicks gave much attention to the local geology and also to the Pleistocene deposits of the Denbighshire caves. For a few years before his death he had laboured at the Devonian rocks. With his keen eye for fossils he detected organic remains in the Morte slates, previously regarded as unfossiliferous, and these he regarded as including representatives of Lower Devonian and
Silurian
 . His papers were mostly published in the Geol. Mag. and Quart. _Iowa. Geol. Soc. He was elected F.R.S. in 1885, and president of the Geological Society of London 1896-1898. He died at Hendon on the 18th of November 1899.


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