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See also:WRIGHT, 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 (1809–1884) , See also:British palaeontologist, was See also:born at See also:Paisley in See also:Renfrewshire on the 9th of See also:November 1809. He studied at the Royal See also:College of Surgeons in See also:Dublin, and qualified as a See also:doctor in 1832. Soon afterwards he settled at See also:Cheltenham, and graduated M.D. at St See also:Andrews in 1846. He devoted his leisure to See also:geological pursuits, became an active member of the Cotteswold Naturalists' See also:Club (founded in 1846), and gathered a See also:fine collection of See also:Jurassic See also:ammonites and echinoderms. He contributed to the Palaeontographical Society monographs on the British fossil Echinodermata from the Oolitic and Cretaceous formations (1855–1882); he also began (1878) a monograph on the See also:Lias ammonites of the British Islands, of which the last See also:part was issued in 1885, after his See also:death. He wrote many papers in the See also:Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist. and Proc. Cotteswold Club. The See also:Wollaston See also:medal was awarded to him by the Geological Society of See also:London in 1878, and he was elected F.R.S. in 1879. He died at Cheltenham on the 17th of November 1884.
End of Article: WRIGHT, THOMAS (1809–1884)
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