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See also:MORRIS, See also:JOHN (1810-1886) , See also:English geologist and palaeontologist, was See also:born at Homerton, See also:London, on the 19th of See also:February 1810. He was brought up to the business of a pharmaceutical chemist. See also:Early in See also:life he published observations on the See also:Tertiary and See also:Post-Tertiary deposits in the See also:Thames valley, and on fossil See also:plants and various invertebrata, in the See also:Magazine of Natural See also:History, the See also:Annals of Nat. Hist. and other See also:journals. In 1845 he issued his See also:Catalogue of See also:British Fossils (2nd ed., 1854), a See also:work of essential service to See also:geology. He was also author (with John Lycett) of A Monograph of the See also:Mollusca from the See also:Great Oolite (Palaeontographical See also:Soc., 1850-1853). In 1855 he became See also:professor of Geology in University See also:College, London, a post which he held until 1877. In 1868–187o and 1877–1878 he was See also:president of the Geologists' Association. He was awarded the See also:Lyell See also:medal by the See also:Geological Society in 1876, and was made Hon. M.A. of See also:Cambridge in 1878 in See also:acknowledgment of his services as See also:deputy Woodwardian professor during the final illness of See also:Sedgwick. He died in London on the 7th of See also:January 1886.
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