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PARKINSON, JAMES (d. 1824)

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Originally appearing in Volume V20, Page 832 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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PARKINSON, See also:JAMES (d. 1824) , See also:English palaeontologist, was educated for the medical profession, and practised in Hoxton, from about the See also:year 1785. He was a See also:Fellow of the Royal See also:College of Surgeons, and one of the See also:original members of the See also:Geological Society of See also:London (1807). He was author of numerous chemical and medical books, the most important of which were Organic Remains of a Former See also:World (3 vols., 1804, 18o8, 1811), and Outlines of Oryctology (1822). Parkinson died in London, on the 21st of See also:December 1824. See Hist. of Collections in Brit. See also:Mus. Nat. Hist. Dep. (1904), PP. 315-316.

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