The New International Encyclopædia/Dawkins, William Boyd

DAWKINS, William Boyd (1838—). An English geologist and paleontologist, appointed professor at Owens College in 1874, He was born at Welshpool, Montgomeryshire, Wales, and after graduating at Jesus College. Oxford (1860). became assistant geologist (1862), and later geologist (1867), to the Geological Survey of Great Britain. He was a member of the Channel Tunnel Committee (1882), and, after making a geological survey of the French and English coasts, laid down the line for a tunnel under the Humber (1883-84), His principal scientific work relates to the investigations of cave faunas. In addition to his papers on fossil mammalia contributed to the Proceedings of the Geological, Anthropological, and Royal societies, he published: Cave Hunting (1874); Researches on the Evidences of Caves Respecting the Early Inhabitants of Europe (1874); Early Man in Britain (1880); British Pleistocene Mammalia (1866-87), He was made examiner at the University of London in 1885.