DAVIES
,
THOMAS
(
1837
-
1892
),
mineralogist
;
b. at
S. Pancras
,
London
,
29 Dec. 1837
, son of
William
Davies
the
palaeontologist
(
1814
-
1891
) (q.v.)
. After spending some years
at sea
, he became an
assistant in the mineral department
of the
British Museum
in
1858
; under
Story-Maskelyne
(see
D.N.B.
) he became an experienced
mineralogist
and was a
pioneer in the use of the microscope in the study of rocks
. Like his father he was more interested in his official duties than in publishing the results of
his own work, but made a few contributions to the
Quarterly Jnl. of the Geological Society
, the
Geological Magazine
, and the
Mineralogical Magazine
, the last-named of which he edited for several years. He d.
21 Dec. 1892
.
Sources:
-
The Geological Magazine
,
1893
, 96;
-
Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society
of London
,
1893
, 54-5.
Author:
Frederick John North, O.B.E., D.Sc., F.G.S., F.S.A., F.M.A.,
(1889-1968), Cardiff
