Gideon Algernon Mantell
1790–1852
Surgeon, geologist, and palaeontologist. Scientific lecturer and author. Made noted collections of invertebrate and dinosaur fossils. Secretary, Geological Society of London, 1841–2; vice-president, 1848–9. FRS 1825.
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DSB.
Bibliography
DNB: Dictionary of national biography. Edited by Leslie Stephen and Sidney Lee. 63 vols. and 2 supplements (6 vols.). London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1912. Dictionary of national biography 1912–90. Edited by H. W. C. Davis et al. 9 vols. London: Oxford University Press. 1927–96.
DSB: Dictionary of scientific biography. Edited by Charles Coulston Gillispie and Frederic L. Holmes. 18 vols. including index and supplements. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons. 1970–90.
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