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MR. THOMAS DAVIES, who died on December 21 last, was born on December 29, 1837, in the neighbourhood of London, and was the son of Mr. William Davies, F.G.S., of the Geological Department of the British Museum. His early education was of a very elementary character, and the period of his school-life was brief: finding town-life irksome, and yearningfor freedom and adventure, he took to the sea at the age of fourteen, and during the next four years led a roving life, visiting China, India, and various parts of South America. He was then prevailed upon by his father to adopt a more settled mode of existence, and on the separation of the Department of Mineralogy from that of Geology was appointed in 1858 a third-class attendant at the British Museum under Prof. Maskelyne, to whom the care of the minerals had been assigned; in the following year he added to his responsibilities by marriage.
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FLETCHER, L. The Late Thomas Davies, F.G.S. Nature 47, 371–372 (1893). https://doi.org/10.1038/047371a0
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