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George Charles Crick
FGS FRGS FZS
Born(1856-10-09)9 October 1856
Ampthill, Bedfordshire, England
Died18 October 1917(1917-10-18) (aged 61)
Wimbledon, London, England
EducationBedford Modern School
Alma materRoyal School of Mines

George Charles Crick FGS FRGS FZS (9 October 1856 – 18 October 1917) was a British geologist, one of the original members of the Malacological Society of London on its foundation in 1893, an authority on the fossil Cephalopoda compiling an early catalogue on it for the Natural History Museum and an author of numerous papers in the Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London and the Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London.[1][2][3][4]

Biography

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Crick was born in Ampthill, Bedfordshire, on 9 October 1856.[5][6] He was the son of Dr. Francis William Crick[7] and educated at Bedford Modern School and the Royal School of Mines.[6][8] Between January 1881 and 1886, Crick was employed as Assistant Secretary to Sir Warington Smyth, Chairman of "H.M. Commission to enquire into Accidents in Mines, etc.".[6] In the same year and in a voluntary capacity, Crick joined the Geological Department of the Natural History Museum, London.[6]

At the Natural History Museum Crick was commissioned to catalogue the fossil Cephalopoda (Belemnites and the Ammonites) and ‘throwing his whole heart into the work left it one of the best arranged and indexed collections’ at the Museum.[6] He was appointed a First Assistant of the Museum in 1904.[6][9]

In the course of his career Crick wrote sixty-seven papers that were published in various scientific journals including seven written in association with Arthur Humphreys Foord and one with Richard Bullen Newton[2][6][10] who was also a first assistant at the Natural History Museum.[11] His work included the description of seventy-four new species and the description of three new genera: Amphoreopsis, Styracoteuthis, and Belemnocamax.[6]

Crick was elected a Fellow of the Geological Society of London in 1881, a Fellow of the Zoological Society of London in 1896 and a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society in 1916.[6]

Crick died in Wimbledon on 18 October 1917[1] and was survived by his wife, Emily Harriett Crick, who herself died on 29 January 1919.[12]

References

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  1. ^ a b "Cambridge Journals". cambridge.org. Archived from the original on 13 October 2008. Retrieved 10 July 2015.
  2. ^ a b "Crick, G. C. 1856–1917 (George Charles) [WorldCat Identities]". worldcat.org. Retrieved 29 April 2015.
  3. ^ "Staff Files: George Charles Crick". nationalarchives.gov.uk. Retrieved 29 April 2015.
  4. ^ "Catalogue of the Books, Manuscripts, Maps and Drawings in the British Museum (Natural History) (A–D)". Mocavo. Retrieved 29 April 2015.
  5. ^ "Genealogy, Family Trees & Family History Records at Ancestry.co.uk". ancestry.co.uk. Retrieved 30 June 2015.
  6. ^ a b c d e f g h i "Natural History Museum Archive Catalogue". nhm.ac.uk. Retrieved 29 April 2015.
  7. ^ Baptism at the Wesleyan Methodist Chapel, Ampthill, Bedfordshire, on 4 January 1857
  8. ^ "George Charles Crick | Shellers From the Past and Present". www.conchology.be.
  9. ^ "Chapter 3 Assistant at the British Museum (Natural History) from 1887; early years". lyellcollection.org. Retrieved 29 April 2015.
  10. ^ Foord, Arthur Humphrys; Crick, George Charles (1897). "Catalog of the Fossil Cephalopoda in the British Museum (Natural History)". google.co.uk. Retrieved 29 April 2015.
  11. ^ Leake, Bernard E. (2011). The Life and Work of Professor J. W. Gregory FRS (1864–1932), Geologist ... ISBN 9781862393233. Retrieved 29 April 2015.
  12. ^ "No. 31201". The London Gazette. 25 February 1919. p. 2780.
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