George Charles Crick

George Charles Crick (9 October 1856 – 18 October 1917) was a British geologist, one of the original members of the Malacological Society of London on its foundation in 1893, an authority on the fossil Cephalopoda compiling an early catalogue on it for the Natural History Museum and an author of numerous papers in the Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London and the Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London.

Biography Crick was born in Ampthill, Bedfordshire, on 9 October 1856. He was the son of Dr. Francis William Crick and educated at Bedford Modern School and the Royal School of Mines. Between January 1881 and 1886, Crick was employed as Assistant Secretary to Sir Warington Smyth, Chairman of "H.M. Commission to enquire into Accidents in Mines, etc.".

In the course of his career Crick wrote sixty-seven papers that were published in various scientific journals including seven written in association with Arthur Humphreys Foord and one with Richard Bullen Newton who was also a first assistant at the Natural History Museum. His work included the description of seventy-four new species and the description of three new genera: Amphoreopsis, Styracoteuthis, and Belemnocamax.