biography
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1842–1920)
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| biography:
| Geologist, born in Faringdon, Oxfordshire, SC England, UK. In 1864 he became a teacher in Galashiels, where he did important work on the geology of S Scotland and the NW Highlands. He was professor of geology at Birmingham (1881–1913), and wrote especially on graptolites. The term Ordovician was introduced by him. |
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