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	William Boyd Dawkins - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		William Boyd Dawkins (26 December 1837–15 January 1929) was a British geologist and archaeologist.
		Born at Buttington vicarage near Welshpool, Montgomeryshire, Dawkins was educated at Rossall School and Oxford.
		He joined the Geological Survey in 1862, and in 1869 became curator of the Manchester museum, a post which he retained till 1890.
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	Sir William Boyd Dawkins, 1837-1929
		Boyd Dawkins was founder and first president of the Lancashire and Cheshire Antiquarian Society and was one of those who accepted P.M.C. Kermode's offer of Honorary Membership in the newly (1879/80) founded IoM Natural History and Antiquarian Society in 1884.
		In 1884 Boyd Dawkins was asked by Governor Loch (one wonders if this was at Savage's or Kermode's suggestion) to produce a report on Manx Antiquities which produced the Manx Ancient Monuments Act a little later.
		Frances Boyd Dawkins acted as an adjudicator in 1913 for a Manx Language Society competition (so far I have not determined what connection she had with the Island).
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	William Boyd Dawkins -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		William Boyd Dawkins (26 December, 1837–15 January, 1929) was a (The people of Great Britain) British (A specialist in geology) geologist and (An anthropologist who studies prehistoric people and their culture) archaeologist.
		Born at Buttington vicarage near (additional info and facts about Welshpool) Welshpool, (additional info and facts about Montgomeryshire) Montgomeryshire, Dawkins was educated at Rossall School and (A city in southern England northwest of London; site of Oxford University) Oxford.
		He joined the (additional info and facts about Geological Survey) Geological Survey in 1862, and in 1869 became curator of the (A city in northwestern England (30 miles east of Liverpool); heart of the most densely populated area of England) Manchester museum, a post which he retained till 1890.
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		Dawkins, Sir William Boyd Dawkins, Sir William Boyd, 1837-1929, English geologist and archaeologist.
		He was a member (1861-69) of the Geological Survey of Great Britain, curator (1870-90) of the Manchester Museum, and professor of geology (from 1872) at Owens College (now Victoria Univ.), Manchester.
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		William L Casto was born in Jun 1881 in WV.
		William M Casto was born between 1828 and 1831 in Jackson Co WV.
		William R Boyd Casto was born in Nov 1891 in WV.
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		Boyd Dawkins realised that the bones he found in the caves were very old because they were buried more than two metres below the ground surface.
		Boyd Dawkins found similar stone tools in the Creswell caves.
		The stone tools found by Boyd Dawkins in the lowest earth layers were quite rough and simple.
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	Geological Society - About Us - From the Archives (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		He was a man of wide-ranging interests; though he appears never settled on any, apart from geology in which he maintained a lifelong amateur interest.
		Elected Fellow in 1881, William spent most of his life as a banker in Southampton, where he was influential in local affairs and especially in those of the fledgling University College.
		Dawkins was a geologist and palaeontologist, whose main interest was in Quaternary mammals.
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	Prof. Sir William Boyd Dawkins (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Sir William Boyd Dawkins was Curator of the Manchester Museum from 1869 and became the first Professor of Geology at Owens College (later the Victoria University of Manchester) from 1874 until his retirement in 1908.
		Although famed for his work as a palaeontologist and 'cave-hunter', from 1870 he gave increasing time to 'the practical side of geology' - a change that led to his important involvement in many of the major engineering schemes of the day.
		He left a voluminous collection of papers which were catalogued by Dr. Geoffrey Tweedale and Timothy Proctor in 1990 and are now housed in the John Rylands University Library on Deansgate, Manchester.
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		Two famous early cavers, John Birbeck from Settle, and William Metcalf from Wethercote House, with others, attempted two descents using ropes, belts, and a 'lowering bucket' via the Dolly Tubs and the Bridge, in 1847 and 1848.
		The first successful direct descent was made by William Boyd Dawkins and 12 others (including 3 ladies in long skirts) in 1870 using a windlass and a large bucket.
		Dawkins then climbed down to the sump using rigid ladders; he discovered the waterfall pouring in from Diccan Pot, and found the dry oxbow on the way out.
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	JRULM: Special Collections Guide: Sir William Boyd Dawkins Papers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Papers of Sir William Boyd Dawkins (1837-1929), geologist, palaeontologist and antiquary, Professor of Geology at the University of Manchester (formerly Owens College) from 1872 to 1908.
		The collection relates largely to his career as a consultant engineering geologist involved in the coal industry, water-supply projects and the construction of reservoirs, and the abortive Channel Tunnel project of the 1880s.
		Finding aids: published handlist, G. Tweedale and T. Procter, `Catalogue of the Papers of Professor Sir William Boyd Dawkins in the John Rylands University Library of Manchester', Bulletin of the John Rylands University Library of Manchester, vol.
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	Palaeolithic cave art in Britain?
		This cavity was dug in the 1870s by the Rev. Magens Mello and Sir William Boyd Dawkins.
		Dawkins (1877) and Mello (1877) disagreed publicly about this matter and the question of the object’s authenticity remains unresolved.
		DAWKINS, W. On the mammal fauna of the caves of Creswell Crags.
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		Sir William Boyd Dawkins 1837–1929, English geologist and archaeologist.
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		Calculations of the distances of stars, eclipses, longitude, etc., made by William Maule, James Cresson, Joseph Jeanes, James James, and Robert Hutchinson, pupils in the Friends Academy, where Roberts was a teacher.
		One volume of mathematical and philosophical papers, 1814, which appear to be college exercises; an essay on the projection of the sphere and spherical trigonometry, including appendix on astronomy (1 vol.); and a lecture on natural philosophy, apparently prepared for delivery.
		It was received at the APS and referred to the Committee on Trade and Commerce on December 20, 1768.
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		The eleven volumes of Sir William's family correspondence were not included in the deposit, having been separated from the other papers at some time during the period 1870-1947.
		Eleven volumes of Sir William Herrick's family correspondence were purchased by the Bodleian in 1968.
		Sir William's Exchequer papers were purchased in 1988, and are now MSS.
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		Noted for his research on fossil mammals and on the antiquity of man, he wrote Cave Hunting (1874) and Early Man in Britain (1880) and was co-author of The British Pleistocene Mammalia (6 vol., 1866-1912).
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		The University of Manchester played a critical role in the early development of computing: the world’s first stored-program computer, built by a team led by Tom Kilburn and Professor F.C. Williams, ran on 21 June 1948.
		The National Archive for the History of Computing, which was established in 1987 under the auspices of the University’s Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine, is one of the foremost repositories in this field.
		There are notable printed holdings for the study of the history of science in the John Rylands University Library, from the earliest editions of Plato, Aristotle, Euclid, Hippocrates and Galen, through to works of the early 20th century by such scientific luminaries as Wilhelm Roentgen, J.J. Thomson and Marie Curie.
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		How pivotal that session of the British Association for the Advancement of Science was in terms of shifting the weight of popular and scientific opinion to an evolutionary viewpoint is as unclear as what was actually said.
		For most of the first half of the 19th century, science at Oxford was in a parlous state, despite the presence of the Reverend Professor William Buckland, the distinguished geologist, and other luminaries, such as Charles Daubeny.
		In the 1840s, a group of dons began lobbying the university for the establishment of a new Honours School of Natural Sciences and a new building to house Oxford's scientific collections, based on those of the Tradescants, father and son, and vigorously enlarged over the years.
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		William Boyd Dawkins (1838 - 1929) - archaeologist
		He became a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1867, and acted as president of the anthropological section of the British Association in 1882 and of the geological section in 1888.
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		A sermon on the victory of Christ over death,: Preached at the funeral of the Rev. William Boyd, in the church of Lamington, May the seventeenth, A.D. eighteen hundred and seven
		An introduction to the study of the Scriptures, by the Lord Bishop of Ripon (The Temple Bible)
		William Boyd of Ireland and Clarion County, Pennsylvania
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	Buxton Museum & Art Gallery - 24 Hour Museum - official guide to UK museums, galleries, exhibitions and heritage
		Founded in 1893, the museum houses geology and archaeology of the Peak District, including the archives and collections of Sir William Boyd Dawkins and Dr J.W.Jackson.
		A busy exhibition of temporary exhibitions provides access to contemporary artists and to the museum's own fine art and photographic collections.
		The archives of Sir William Boyd Dawkins and Dr. J.W.Jackson span 150 years of the history of geology.
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	The Geological Curator Vol 6, No.10 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Baldwin, A. and Alderson, D.M. Rochdale Public Cemetery, laid out in 1855, contains a geological trail, of thirty standing stones that represent the geology of the British Isles.
		It was highly praised by the geologist William Boyd-Dawkins in 1881, and remains in a reasonable state of repair today.
		Such a geological trail has a high educational value even after one hundred and forty years.
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