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BRITISH geology suffers a severe loss in the death of Dr. Henry Hicks, a loss which will long be felt on personal as well as scientific grounds. His chief work was in South Wales, among the older Palæozoic formations, whose life-history was previously but little known. He pushed his inquiries into the very oldest pre-Cambrian rocks, both in Wales and Scotland; and then turning from these most ancient records he gave attention to those immediately preceding the present order of things, and pursued with equal ardour the evidences of glaciation in South Wales and Middlesex, the records of old bone-caves, and the remains of mammoth in the Thames Valley. No man had a keener eye for fossils. To him rocks which had for long been deemed unfossiliferous yielded up some evidences of life.
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W., H. Dr. Henry Hicks, F.R.S. . Nature 61, 109–110 (1899). https://doi.org/10.1038/061109a0
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