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d'Almaine, Harry or Henry George William

D'Urban, William Stewart Mitchell

Dack, Charles

Dadley, William

Dale, William

Dallas, James S. [possibly Sweetland]

Dammann, Carl

Darbishire, Robert Dukinfield

Darling, Cathi

Darwin, Francis

Daveney, [Mr][full version unknown]

Davey, Drew

Davis, Anne Charlotte Vaughan

Davis, J.

Davis, Joseph Barnard

Davis Brothers & Co.

Davis or Davies, W.R.

Davis-Cooke, [Miss] G.

Daw, F.W.

Dawkins, William Boyd

De Alarcón, Marina

de Chroustchoff, Boris

de Vitre, J.D. [possibly John Durham Denis]

Debenham, Arthur W.

Delafield, William

Denham, Alfred

Dennis, G.H.

Dennison, Ann

Department of Earth Sciences Queen Mary College University of London

Dew, T.

Dew-Smith, Albert George

Dexion Limited

Diamond Match Co. Ltd

Dick, [Mrs] C.

Dickens, [Mrs] K.

Dickinson, Alfred Ernest

Dickinson, Cicely Frances

Dickinson, Enid May

Dickson, [Colonel] [full version unknown]

Dickson, [Mrs][full version unknown]

Didcot Girls' School

Dines, Henry George

Dipper, Andrew

Dixey, Charles Westell

Dixon and Sons, James

Docker, George

Dodd, [John?] [full version unknown]

Dodds, Theodore

Dorchester Weavers

Dorset Police Force

Dorsett, Edith

Dougan, Robert

Douglas, James Archibald

Dow, George

Dowler

Down Bros. Ltd

Downes, [Mrs] Roger Meaden

Downey, William and Daniel

Downs, Jane

Drennan in Japan

Druce, George Claridge

Drummond, James

Drummond, K.R.

Drummond, William Hamilton

Dryden, Henry Edward Leigh

Duffy, [full version unknown]

Dulcet, A.B.S.

Dunbar, M.J.

Dunn, William

Dupe, William

Durham, Mary Edith

Duvelleroy, [J. ]

Individual's Details

William Boyd Dawkins

Career Traveller / Natural Historian / Academic / Archaeologist

Biography Geologist and palaeontologist. From 1869 he was Curator of Natural History, Manchester Museum, later Lecturer in Geology at Owens College [later Manchester University] and then Professor of Geology until his retirement [Alison Petch [as part of 'The Other Within' project 2006-9] 08/01/2007]

Biography References http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/32750 / Who was Who 2007

Clubs & Societies Geological Society / Royal Society / Athenaeum / British Association for the Advancement of Science / Society of Antiquaries / Somerset Archaeological & Natural History Society / Royal Anthropological Institute [& earlier manifestations]

County Somerset

Relationship Field Collector / Other Owner

Archaeological or Ethnographic Archaeology

Collected around 1859-1863

Dates active 1837-1929

Donated around 1970

English collections Plaster cast of stone tool

Oxford Uni College Jesus College

Oxford Uni Education Yes

Oxford Uni date 1854-1860

Oxford based No

Date in Oxford 1854-1869

Portrait link http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/32750

English collection size 1

Connections Edward Burnett Tylor / Augustus Henry Lane Fox Pitt Rivers / E. possibly Edward Augustus Freeman / John Campbell

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