Ramsay Heatley Traquair

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Ramsay Heatley Traquair (1840-1912) was a Scottish naturalist who became a leading expert on fossil fish. His childhood was spent in Scotland in Rhynd, Perthshire and Edinburgh. He studied medicine and then fish anatomy at Edinburgh University. He was Professor of Zoology at the Royal College of Science, Dublin, Ireland, and then Keeper of Natural History (1873) at the Royal Scottish Museum, Edinburgh. He was married to the artist Phoebe Anna Moss, who he had met in Dublin. Traquair carried out work at Dura Den, and his collection of fossil fish was considered one of the finest in the world at the time.[1]

In 1901, Traquair was awarded the Lyell Medal of the Geological Society of London[2], and in 1907 he received the Royal Medal of the Royal Society.[3]

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  1. ^ Professor Ramsay Heatley Traquair. Retrieved on 2007-07-18.
  2. ^ Geological Society of London. Lyell Medal. Retrieved on 2007-07-18.
  3. ^ Royal Society. Royal archive winners 1949 - 1900. Retrieved on 2007-07-18.


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