About Henry William Burrows
Lived 1858 – 1941 (aged 82–83). Henry William Burrows was a British paleontologist and geologist.
Henry William Burrows (1858–1939) was an English architect and amateur palaeontologist, who 'devoted his leisure to Tertiary fossils'. Burrows was elected a Fellow of the Geological Society in 1900. He was one of the founders of the Malacological Society of London in 1893, and was elected an honorary member in 1932.
Selected works With George Frederick Harris The Eocene and Oligocene beds of the Paris basin. London :University college, E. Stanford,1891.pdf Burrows, H. W. & Holland, R. 1897. The foraminifera of the Thanet Beds of Pegwell Bay. Proceedings of the Geologists' Association, 15, 19–52.
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English palaeontologist (1858–1941)
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