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WITH the death on September 15, at Upton near Didcot, Berkshire, of Dr. Henry Guy Ellcock Pilgrim, vertebrate palæontology has lost one of its most distinguished exponents, and the world's greatest authority on the rich Siwalik fauna of India. Pilgrim, who came of an old Barbadian family, was born at Stepney, Barbados, on December 24, 1874. He was educated at Harrison College, Barbados, and University College, London (D.Sc, 1908) ; he was appointed to the Geological Survey of India in 1902, from which he retired in 1930, having been a superintendent since 1920. He then became a member of the supernumerary staff of the Department of Geology, British Museum (Natural History). He was elected a corresponding member of the Palæontological Society of America (1925), a fellow of the Asiatic Society of Bengal (1925), and, very belatedly, a fellow of the Royal Society (1943). He was president of the Geological Section of the Indian Science Congress in 1925. During the War of 1914-18 he was attached as 2nd lieutenant to the 125th Napier's Rifles, and received war medals for service in Mesopotamia and Persia, 1916-19.
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FERMOR, L. Dr. G. E. Pilgrim, F. R. S. Nature 152, 528–529 (1943). https://doi.org/10.1038/152528a0
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