Henry Alleyne Nicholson

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Henry Alleyne Nicholson
Durham College of Science
University of Aberdeen

Henry Alleyne Nicholson

FRSE FGS FLS (11 September 1844 – 19 January 1899) was a British palaeontologist and zoologist.[1]

Life

The son of

D.Sc., 1867; M.D., 1869). Geology had early attracted his attention, and his first publication was a thesis for his D.Sc. degree titled On the Geology of Cumberland and Westmoreland (1868).[4]

In 1869 he began lecturing in

Edinburgh University
.

In 1871 he was appointed professor of

University of St. Andrews. This last post he held until 1882, when he became Regius Professor of natural history in the University of Aberdeen.[3][4]

In 1870 he was elected a Fellow of the

Royal Society of London in 1897.[5]

His original work was mainly on fossil invertebrata (graptolites, stromatoporoids and corals); but he did much field work, especially in the Lake District, where he labored in company with Robert Harkness and afterwards with John Edward Marr. He was awarded the Lyell Medal by the Geological Society in 1888.[4]

In 1898 he promoted

Aberdeen University. Nicholson retired in 1899.[6]

He died at Aberdeen on 19 January 1899.

Publications

During his career he published 167 papers, usually as the sole author, and 12 textbooks, most importantly The Ancient Life History of the Earth.

  • Ancient Life-History of the Earth (1877).
  • Manual of Zoology (of which there were 7 editions) and other text-books of Zoology.
  • Manual of Palaeontology (1872, 3rd ed, 2 vols., with Richard Lydekker, 1889).
  • Monograph of the Silurian Fossils of the Girvan District in Ayrshire (with R. Etheridge, jun.) (1878–1880).
  • Monograph of the British Stromatoporoids in Palaeontograph. Soc. (1886–1892).[4]
  • Lives and labours of leading naturalists (1894)

Gallery

  • Piece of Nummulitic Limestone from the Great Pyramid, Ancient Life-History of the Earth
    Piece of Nummulitic Limestone from the Great Pyramid, Ancient Life-History of the Earth
The standard author abbreviation H.Nicholson is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.[7]

References

  1. ^ Lee, Sidney, ed. (1901). "Nicholson, Henry Alleyne" . Dictionary of National Biography (1st supplement). London: Smith, Elder & Co.
  2. ISBN 0-902-198-84-X. Archived from the original
    (PDF) on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 1 November 2017.
  3. ^
    doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/14446. Retrieved 27 April 2018. (Subscription or UK public library membership
    required.)
  4. ^ a b c d  One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Nicholson, Henry Alleyne". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 19 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 657.
  5. ISBN 0-902-198-84-X. Archived from the original
    (PDF) on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 1 November 2017.
  6. doi:10.1017/S0370164600013948
    .
  7. ^ International Plant Names Index.  H.Nicholson.

Further reading

External links
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