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See also:DAVIDSON, See also:- THOMAS
- THOMAS (c. 1654-1720)
- THOMAS (d. 110o)
- THOMAS, ARTHUR GORING (1850-1892)
- THOMAS, CHARLES LOUIS AMBROISE (1811-1896)
- THOMAS, GEORGE (c. 1756-1802)
- THOMAS, GEORGE HENRY (1816-187o)
- THOMAS, ISAIAH (1749-1831)
- THOMAS, PIERRE (1634-1698)
- THOMAS, SIDNEY GILCHRIST (1850-1885)
- THOMAS, ST
- THOMAS, THEODORE (1835-1905)
- THOMAS, WILLIAM (d. 1554)
THOMAS (1817-1885) , See also:British palaeontologist, was See also:born in See also:Edinburgh on the 17th of May 1817. His parents possessed considerable landed See also:property in Midlothian. Educated partly in the university at Edinburgh and partly in See also:France, See also:Italy and See also:Switzerland, and See also:early acquiring an See also:interest in natural See also:history, he benefited greatly by acquaintance with See also:foreign See also:languages and literature, and with men of See also:science in different countries. He was induced in 1837, through the See also:influence of See also:Leopold von See also:Buch, to devote his See also:special See also:attention to the See also:brachiopoda, and in course of See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time he became the highest authority on this See also:group. The See also:great task of his See also:life was the Monograph of British Fossil Brachiopoda, published by the Palaeontographical Society (1850-1886). This See also:work, with supplements, comprises six See also:quarto volumes with more than 200 plates See also:drawn on See also:- STONE
- STONE (0. Eng. shin; the word is common to Teutonic languages, cf. Ger. Stein, Du. steen, Dan. and Swed. sten; the root is also seen in Gr. aria, pebble)
- STONE, CHARLES POMEROY (1824-1887)
- STONE, EDWARD JAMES (1831-1897)
- STONE, FRANK (1800-1859)
- STONE, GEORGE (1708—1764)
- STONE, LUCY [BLACKWELL] (1818-1893)
- STONE, MARCUS (184o— )
- STONE, NICHOLAS (1586-1647)
stone by the author. He also prepared an exhaustive memoir on " See also:Recent Brachiopoda," published by the Linnean Society. He was elected F.R.S. in 1857. He was awarded in 1865 the See also:Wollaston See also:medal by the See also:Geological Society of See also: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 See also:Andrews. He died at See also:Brighton on the 14th of See also:October 1885, bequeathing his See also:fine collection of recent and fossil brachiopoda to the British Museum.
See See also:biography with portrait and See also:list of papers in Geol. Mag. for 1871, p. 145.
End of Article: DAVIDSON, THOMAS (1817-1885)
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