William Hellier Baily F.L.S., F.G.S., M.R.I.A.
Timeline
Date | Details |
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1819 | Born July 7th at Bristol. |
1837-1844 | Assistant Curator at Bristol Museum. |
1844 | Joined Geological Survey as draughtsman. |
1845 | Appointed Assistant Geologist. Duties confined to museum work. |
1854 | Appointed Assistant Naturalist under Edward Forbes, later under Huxley. |
1857 | Transferred to Irish Survey, as Acting Palaeontologist. (Post retained till 1888.) |
1867 | Wollaston Fund from Geol. Soc. |
1868 | Additional appointment - Demonstrator in Palaeontology to Royal College of Science for Ireland. |
1888 | Died Aug 6th near Dublin. |
Biographies and obituaries
Obituary - William Hellier Baily, F.L.S., F.G.S., M.R.I.A. Born 7th July 1819, died 6th August 1888. Geologists Magazine. New Series. v. 5 p.431-432. 1888
Blanford, W.T. Obituary - William Hellier Baily. [In Anniversary Address.]. Proceedings of the Geological Society in Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society. v. 45 p.39-41. 1889
Nature Aug 23. 1888, p. 396
Publications
1867-1875 — "Chief work - description and drawing of fossils, palaeontological. Notes in Irish Memoirs, papers on palaeontological and kindred subjects, 1867-75 ""Figures of Characteristic British Fossils""."