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Thomson, Sir Charles Wyville

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Zoologist, born at Bonsyde, Linlithgow; educated at Merchiston Castle, Edinburgh, and at the university there; a lecturer on botany at Aberdeen, professor of Natural History in Queen's College, Cork, of Geology at Belfast, and of Natural History in the University of Edinburgh; accompanied the Challenger expedition (1872-1876) as head of the scientific department; knighted 1876; wrote "The Depths of the Sea" and "The Voyage of the Challenger " (1830-1882).

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Wood, James, ed. Entry for 'Thomson, Sir Charles Wyville'. The Nuttall Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/​encyclopedias/​eng/​nut/​t/thomson-sir-charles-wyville.html. Frederick Warne & Co Ltd. London. 1900.
 
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