Citation | Assistant-Keeper of Geology, British Museum, Natural History, Cromwell Road, SW. Studied at the Owen's College, Manchester, 1880-1882; entered British Museum, 24th aug, 1882; awarded Wollaston Fund by Geological Society, 1889; and the Lyell Medal in 1896. Distinguished for his knowledge of Fossil Fishes. Author of 150 separate papers, mostly on Vertebrate Palaeontology: (142 on Fossil Fishes; 14 on Reptilia; 4 on Mammalia; and 14 on General Palaeontology). Author of two monographs (1890-1895) on the Fossils of the Hawkesbury Series (Mem Geol Survey, New South Wales (Palaeontology), Nos 4 and 9, Museum, Sydney, New South Wales); and on Fossil Crocodilia from the Cretaceous Rocks of Neuquen, Argentine Republic (Anales Mus La Plata, 1896). Author of a British Museum catalogue of Fossil Fishes, comprising: Part I 'The Elasmobranchii' (pp i-xlvii and 1-474, plates i-xvii and 13 woodcuts, 8vo 1889); Part II 'The Elasmobranchii' 'continued' (pp i-xliv and 1-567, plates i-xvi and 58 woodcuts, 8vo, 1891); Part III 'The Actinopterygian Teleostomi' (pp i-xliii and 1-544, plates i-xviii and 45 woogcuts. (Printed by order of the Trustees, 1895); Part IV now preparing for Press. Also 'Outlines of Vertebrate Palaeontology' (Camb Univ Press), 1898, pp i-xxiv, and 1-470, with 228 illustrations in the text. |