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Darwin Correspondence Project

William Davies

1814–91

Palaeontologist. Attendant, British Museum, 1843. Responsible for the fossil vertebrate collection from 1875. Promoted to assistant, 1875; assistant, first class, 1880. First Murchison medallist of the Geological Society of London, 1873.

Source

ODNB

Bibliography

ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.

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