Edward Battersby Bailey

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Sir Edward Battersby Bailey FRS (1 July 1881 - 19 March 1965) was a British geologist. From 1929 to 1937, he held the chair in geology at the University of Glasgow, where he was succeeded by Sir Arthur Elijah Trueman (chair in geology 1937-1946). He was director of the British Geological Survey and won the Wollaston Medal of the Geological Society of London.

[edit] Further reading

• MacGregor, A.G. (1970). "Bailey, Edward Battersby". Dictionary of Scientific Biography 1. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. 393-395. ISBN 0684101149.