William Crawford Williamson

1816–95

  Surgeon and naturalist . Surgeon to the Chorlton-on-Medlock dispensary, Manchester, 1842–68; surgeon to the Manchester Institute for Diseases of the Ear, 1855–70. Professor of natural history, anatomy, and physiology, Owens College, Manchester, 1851–91. Began a comprehensive study of the plants of the coal measures in 1858. FRS 1854.

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See also Correspondence, volume(s): 3,4,9