DAVIDSON, THOMAS (1817-1885), British palaeontolo gist, born in Edinburgh on May 17, 1817, was educated partly in the University of Edinburgh and partly in France, Italy and Switz erland. His Monograph of British Fossil Brachiopoda was pub lished by the Palaeontographical Society (1850-86. 6 vols. with 200 plates). He also prepared an exhaustive memoir on "Recent Brachiopoda," published by the Linnean Society. He was elected F.R.S. in 1857. He died at Brighton on Oct. 14,1885.
See biography with portrait and list of papers in Geol. Mag. for 1871, p. 145.