| Date |
Details
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| 1850 |
Born November 19th in Ayrshire.
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| 1869 |
Joined Survey (Edinburgh) as Fossil Collector.
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| 1889 |
Assistant Curator (till 1913).
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| 1901 |
Assistant in Fossil Department.
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| 1907 |
Assistant for Survey Collections.
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Fossil collecting chiefly in Silurian of Southern Uplands. Discoverer of notable fossil locality at Glencartholm, Dumfriesshire; also of the “olenellus fauna”; and of new fish fauna from Downtownian of Lanarkshire.
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| 1906-1920 |
Lecturer in Geology at Heriot-Watt College.
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| 1913 |
Retired from Survey.
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| 1923 |
Awarded Lyell Fund. (In February.)
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| 1923 |
Died March 11th in Edinburgh.
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