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See also:NICHOLSON, See also:- HENRY
- HENRY (1129-1195)
- HENRY (c. 1108-1139)
- HENRY (c. 1174–1216)
- HENRY (Fr. Henri; Span. Enrique; Ger. Heinrich; Mid. H. Ger. Heinrich and Heimrich; O.H.G. Haimi- or Heimirih, i.e. " prince, or chief of the house," from O.H.G. heim, the Eng. home, and rih, Goth. reiks; compare Lat. rex " king "—" rich," therefore " mig
- HENRY, EDWARD LAMSON (1841– )
- HENRY, JAMES (1798-1876)
- HENRY, JOSEPH (1797-1878)
- HENRY, MATTHEW (1662-1714)
- HENRY, PATRICK (1736–1799)
- HENRY, PRINCE OF BATTENBERG (1858-1896)
- HENRY, ROBERT (1718-1790)
- HENRY, VICTOR (1850– )
- HENRY, WILLIAM (1795-1836)
HENRY ALLEYNE (1844-1899) , See also:British palaeontologist and zoologist, son of Dr See also:John Nicholson, a biblical See also:scholar, was See also:born at See also:Penrith on the rrth of See also:September 1844. He was educated at See also:Appleby See also:Grammar School and at the See also:universities of See also:Gottingen (Ph.D., 1866) and See also:Edinburgh (D.Sc., 1867; M.D., 1869). See also:Geology had See also:early attracted his See also:attention, and his first publication was a thesis for his D.Sc. degree On the Geology of See also:Cumberland and Westmoreland (1868). In 1871 he was appointed See also:professor of natural See also:history in the university of See also:Toronto, in 1874 professor of See also:biology in the See also:Durham See also:College of See also:Science and in 1875 professor of natural history in the university of St :See also:Andrews. This last See also:post he held until 1882, when he became regius professor of natural history in the university of See also:Aberdeen. He was elected F.R.S. in 1897. His See also:original See also:work was mainly on fossil invertebrata (See also:graptolites, stromatoporoids and See also:corals) ; but he did much See also:- FIELD (a word common to many West German languages, cf. Ger. Feld, Dutch veld, possibly cognate with O.E. f olde, the earth, and ultimately with root of the Gr. irAaror, broad)
- FIELD, CYRUS WEST (1819-1892)
- FIELD, DAVID DUDLEY (18o5-1894)
- FIELD, EUGENE (1850-1895)
- FIELD, FREDERICK (18o1—1885)
- FIELD, HENRY MARTYN (1822-1907)
- FIELD, JOHN (1782—1837)
- FIELD, MARSHALL (183 1906)
- FIELD, NATHAN (1587—1633)
- FIELD, STEPHEN JOHNSON (1816-1899)
- FIELD, WILLIAM VENTRIS FIELD, BARON (1813-1907)
field work, especially in the See also:Lake See also:district, where he laboured in See also:company with Professor R. See also:Harkness and afterwards with Dr J.E. Mari. He was awarded the See also:Lyell See also:Medal by the See also:Geological Society in 1888. He died at Aberdeen on the 19th of See also:January 1899.
PunL IC ATIoNS.—See also:Ancient See also:Life-History of the See also:Earth (1897); See also:Manual of See also:Zoology (of which there were 7 See also:editions) and other See also:text-books of Zoology; Manual of Palaeontology (1872, 3rd ed., 2 vols., with R. Lydlel:See also:ker, 1889); Monograph of the See also:Silurian Fossils of the See also:Girvan District in See also:Ayrshire (with R. See also:Etheridge, jun.) (1878—1880); Mono-graph of the British Stromatoporoids in Palaeontograph. See also:Soc. (1886—1892).
Obituary, with portrait, by Dr G. J. Hinde, in Geol. Mag. (See also:March 1899).
End of Article: NICHOLSON, HENRY ALLEYNE (1844-1899)
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