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MORRIS, JOHN (1810-1886)

This article appears in Volume V18, Page 870 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: MOL-MOS
MORRIS, JOHN (1810-1886) ,
English
  geologist and palaeontologist, was born at Homerton, London, on the 19th of
February
  1810. He was brought up to the business of a pharmaceutical chemist. Early in
life
  he published observations on the Tertiary and Post-Tertiary deposits in the Thames valley, and on fossil plants and various invertebrata, in the Magazine of Natural History, the Annals of Nat. Hist. and other
journals
 . In 1845 he issued his Catalogue of British Fossils (2nd ed., 1854), a
work
  of essential service to geology. He was also author (with John Lycett) of A Monograph of the Mollusca from the
Great
  Oolite (Palaeontographical Soc., 1850-1853). In 1855 he became professor of Geology in University College, London, a post which he held until 1877. In 1868187o and 18771878 he was president of the Geologists' Association. He was awarded the Lyell
medal
  by the
Geological
  Society in 1876, and was made Hon. M.A. of
Cambridge
  in 1878 in acknowledgment of his services as
deputy
  Woodwardian professor during the final illness of Sedgwick. He died in London on the 7th of January 1886.


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