The palaeontologist William Hellier Baily (1819-1888): new biographical information

Abstract

A biographical account, previously published in The Geological Curator in 2009, of the palaeontologist William Hellier Baily (1819-1888) has already addressed his struggle for advancement in the Geological Survey of Ireland, and various aspects of his publication of Figures of Characteristic British Fossils ([1867]-1875). Further light, revealed by documents recently discovered in the Geological Society of London archives and the Linnean Society of London library, is now cast on those matters.