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Authorised form of name	Bigsby; John Jeremiah (1792 - 1881)
Dates	1792 - 1881
Place of birth	Nottingham, England
Date of birth	14 August 1792
Place of death	Gloucester Place, London
Date of death	10 February 1881
Occupation	Physician
Research field	Geology
Activity	Education: St Andrews University; Edinburgh University. MD (1814, Edinburgh) Career: Entered Army Medical Department (1816); worked in Canada; developed interest in geology; Secretary and medical officer to the Boundary Commission, Canada (1822); left the army (1823); returned to England and practised in Newark-on-Trent (1827-1846); moved to London and devoted himself to geology; published 'Thesaurus Siluricus' (1868); gave money to the Geological Society to found a medal Memberships: FGS; FRGS; FLS (1823, resigned 1842)
Membership category	Fellow
Date of election	03/06/1869
Sources	Sources: Bulloch's Roll Obituaries: Proc Roy Soc 1881-1882 vol 33 pp xvi-xvii References: Susan Sheets-Pyenson, '"Pearls Before Swine": Sir William Dawson's Bakerian Lecture of 1870' in NR 1991 vol 45 pp 177-191
Virtual International Authority File	http://viaf.org/viaf/40160164
Royal Society code	NA5703

Archives associated with this Fellow

Reference number	Title	Date
EC/1869/06	Bigsby, John Jeremiah: certificate of election to the Royal Society
M/116	Bigsby Medal of the Geological Society of London
MS/787/1/18	Letter from J[ohn] J[eremiah] Bigsby, 39 Gloster Place, Portman Square, to [Henry Bowman Brady]	22 April 1876
RR/6/19	Letter from Roderick Impey Murchison, to Edward Sabine, regarding a paper 'A brief account of the 'Thesaurus Siluricus,' with a few facts and inferences' by John Jeremiah Bigsby	2 November 1866
RR/6/20	Referee's report by Andrew Crombie Ramsay, on a paper 'A brief account of the 'Thesaurus Siluricus,' with a few facts and inferences' by John Jeremiah Bigsby	6 February 1867
MC/8/149	Letter from W B [William Branwhite] Clarke, Parsonage, St Leonard's, near Sydney, NSW [New South Wales], to the Secretary of the Royal Society	29 February 1868
MC/8/248	Letter from J J [John Jeremiah] Bigsby, 89 Gloucester Place, Portman Square, to Walter White, [Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society]	23 September 1868
MC/8/276	Letter from J J [John Jeremiah] Bigsby, 89 Glo Pl [Glouester Place], P Sq [Portman Square], to the Royal Society	7 December 1868
MC/8/247	Letter from J J [John Jeremiah] Bigsby, 89 Gloucester Place, [Portman] Square, to the Royal Society	18 September 1868
MC/8/279	Letter from J J [John Jeremiah] Bigsby, 89 Glo Pl [Glouester Place], P Sq [Portman Square], to Walter White, [Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society]	7 December 1868
MC/10/213	Letter from J J [John Jeremiah] Bigsby, to Dr [Thomas Henry] Huxley, [Secretary of the Royal Society]	January 1875
MC/10/214	Letter from J J [John Jeremiah] Bigsby to the Royal Society	c. January 1875
MC/10/215	Letter from John J [Jeremiah] Bigsby, 89 Gloucester Place, Portman Square, to [Joseph Dalton Hooker], President of the Royal Society and to the Council	25 January 1875
MC/10	Volume 10 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society	July 1873-1876
MC/11/194	Letter from J J [John Jeremiah] Bigsby, 89 Gloucester Place, [Portman] Square, to [Thomas Henry Huxley and George Gabriel Stokes], Secretaries of the Royal Society	30 March 1878
MC/11	Volume 11 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society	1877-1879
MC/8	Volume 8 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society	1867-1869

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