1910–1911
Britannica 11th
Encyclopaedia Britannica · 11th edition
THOMSON, SIR CHARLES WYVILLE (1830-1882), Scottish naturalist, was born at Bonsyde, Linlithgowshire, on the sth of March 1830, and was educated at Edinburgh University. In 1850 he was appointed lecturer in, and in 1851 professor of, botany at Aberdeen, and in 1853 he became professor of natural history in Queen's College, Cork. A year later he was nominated to the chair of mineralogy and geology at Queen's College, Belfast, and in 1860 was transferred to the chair of natural history in the same institution. In 1868…
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