Dawkins, WILLIAM BOYD

Dawkins, WILLIAM BOYD, was born at Buttington vicarage, near Welshpool, Montgomeryshire, 26th December 1838, and educated at Rossall School and Jesus College, Oxford. In 1862 he joined the Geological Survey, became curator of Manchester Museum in 1869, and professor of Geology in Owens College there in 1874. In 1882 he presided over the anthropological section at the Southampton meeting of the British Association, and in the same year was elected honorary fellow of his old college. The Channel Tunnel committee employed him in 1882 to make a special survey of both coasts; and next year he laid down the line for a tunnel under the Humber. Professor Dawkins is a fellow of the Royal and other learned societies, and has contributed numerous papers to their issues relating especially to fossil mammalia. His books are Cave-hunting: Researches on the Evidences of Caves respecting the Early Inhabitants of Europe (1874), and Early Man in Britain, and his place in the Tertiary Period (1880), the latter a work of great interest.