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See also:DAWKINS, See also:- WILLIAM
- WILLIAM (1143-1214)
- WILLIAM (1227-1256)
- WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
- WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
- WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
- WILLIAM, 13TH
WILLIAM See also:BOYD (1838– ) , See also:English geologist and archaeologist, was See also:born at Buttington vicarage near See also:Welshpool, See also:Montgomeryshire, on the 26th of See also:December 1838. Educated at Rossall School and See also:- OXFORD
- OXFORD, EARLS OF
- OXFORD, EDWARD DE VERE, 17TH EARL
- OXFORD, JOHN DE VERE, 13TH EARL OF (1443-1513)
- OXFORD, PROVISIONS OF
- OXFORD, ROBERT DE VERE, 9TH EARL OF (1362-1392)
- OXFORD, ROBERT HARLEY, 1ST
Oxford, he joined the See also:Geological Survey in 1862, and in 1869 became See also:curator of the See also:Manchester museum, a See also:post which he retained till 1890. He was appointed See also:professor of See also:geology and palaeontology in See also:Owens See also:College, Manchester, in 1874. He paid See also:special See also:attention to the question of the existence of See also:coal in See also:Kent, and in 1882 was selected by the Channel See also:tunnel See also:committee to make a special survey of the See also:French and English coasts. He was also employed in the See also:- SCHEME (Lat. schema, Gr. oxfjya, figure, form, from the root axe, seen in exeiv, to have, hold, to be of such shape, form, &c.)
scheme of a tunnel beneath the See also:Humber. His See also:chief distinctions, however, were won in the realms of See also:anthropology by his researches into the lives of the See also:cave-dwellers of prehistoric times, labours which have See also:borne See also:fruit in his books Cave-See also:hunting (1874); See also:Early See also:Man in See also:Britain (188o); See also:British See also:Pleistocene See also:Mammalia (1866-1887). He became a See also:Fellow of the Royal Society in 1867, and acted as See also:president of the anthropological See also:section of the British Association in 1882 and of the geological section in 1888.
' The See also:commission completed its labours on the 1st of See also:July 1905, after having allotted 20,000,000 acres of See also:land among 90,000 See also:Indians and absorbed the five See also:Indian governments into the See also:national See also:system. The " five tribes " were the See also:Cherokee, See also:Chickasaw, See also:Choctaw, See also:Creek and See also:Seminole Indians.
End of Article: DAWKINS, WILLIAM BOYD (1838– )
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