William Johnson Sollas
British geologist and anthropologist
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- Bachelors Natural Sciences University of Oxford
- Doctorate Geology University of Oxford
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Prof William Johnson Sollas PGS FRS FRSE LLD was a British geologist and anthropologist. After studying at the City of London School, the Royal College of Chemistry and the Royal School of Mines he matriculated to St. John's College, Cambridge, where he was awarded First Class Honours in geology. After some time spent as a University Extension lecturer he became lecturer in Geology and Zoology at University College, Bristol in 1879, where he stayed until he was offered the post of Professor of Geology at Trinity College Dublin. In 1897 he was offered the post of Professor of Geology at the University of Oxford, which he accepted.
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- A method for the investigation of fossils by serial sections (60)
- A Study of the Skull of a Dicynodon by means of Serial Sections (55)
- The Skull of Ichthyosaurus, Studied in Serial Sections (51)
- On the Geology of the Bristol District (1880) (38)
- On the Cranial and Facial Characters of the Neandertal Race (1908) (30)
- XXXVII.—The sponge-fauna of Norway; a report on the Rev. A. M. Norman's Collection of Sponges from the Norwegian Coast (1880) (30)
- On the Structure of Lysorophus, as Exposed by Serial Sections (30)
- Lapworthura: A Typical Brittlestar of the Silurian Age; with Suggestions for a New Classification of the Ophiuroidea (29)
- On a new Species of Plesiosaurus (P. Conybeari) from the Lower Lias of Charmouth; with Observations on P. megacephalus, Stutchbury, and P. brachycephalus, Owen (1881) (26)
- The Estuaries of the Severn and its Tributaries; an Inquiry into the Nature and Origin of their Tidal Sediment and Alluvial Flats (1883) (19)
- On a Sagittal Section of the Skull of Australopithecus Africanus (1926) (18)
- An Account of the Devonian Fish, Palaeospondylus gunni, Traquair (17)
- On Saccammina carteri Brady, and the Minute Structure of the Foraminiferal Shell (1921) (15)
- VII.—On two new and remarkable species ofCliona (15)
- On the Silurian District of Rhymney and Pen-y-lan, Cardiff (1879) (15)
- Fossils in the University Museum, Oxford: I. On Silurian Echinoidea and Ophiuroidea (1899) (15)
- The Chancelade Skull. (14)
- Fossils in the Oxford University Museum.—II.1On Two New Genera and Species of Crinoidea (Brahmacrinus ponderosus and Cicerocrinus elegans) (1900) (13)
- On some Three-toed Footprints from the Triassic Conglomerate of South Wales (1879) (13)
- Ancient Hunters and their Modern Representatives (1926) (12)
- On the Structure of the Dicynodont Skull (11)
- The Age of the Earth and Other Geological Studies (8)
- The Taungs Skull (1925) (8)
- The geology of Dublin and its neighbourhood (1893) (7)
- The Figure of the Earth (1903) (7)
- XXXVI.—On the changes produced in the siliceous skeletons of certain sponges by the action of caustic potash (1877) (6)
- The Master (6)
- Fossils in the Oxford University Museum.—III. Ichnium Wattsii, a Worm-track from the Slates of Bray Head: with Observations on the Genus Oldhamia (1900) (6)
- I.—On Stauronema, a new genus of fossil hexactinellid sponges, with a description of its two species, S. Carteri and S. lobata (6)
- Descriptions of Fossil Sponges from the Inferior Oolite, with a Notice of some from the Great Oolite (1883) (6)
- On the included Rock-fragments of the Cambridge Upper Greensand (1873) (6)
- II.—On the Glauconitic Granules of the Cambridge Greensand (1876) (6)
- II.—On plectronella papillosa, a new genus and species of echinonematous sponge (5)
- III.—On the Perforate Character of the Genus Webbina, with a Notice of Two New Species, W. Lævis and W. Tuberculata, from the Cambridge Greensand (1877) (5)
- Some Observations on the Upper Greensand Formation of Cambridge (1872) (5)
- Fossil Men, Elements of Human Palæontology. By Marcellin Boule. Translated from the French by Jessie Elliot Ritchie and James Ritchie. Edinburgh, 1923. 36s. (1924) (5)
- The Legendary History of Funafuti, Ellice Group (1897) (5)
- The Sagittal Section of the Human Skull. (1933) (5)
- The Inheritance of Acquired Characters (1889) (4)
- Observations on Daetylocalyx pumiceus (Stutchbury), with a Description of a New Variety, Dactylocalyx Stutchburyi. (1879) (4)
- On the Structure and Affinities of the Genus Siphona (1877) (4)
- Notes on some Rock Fragments dredged up between Faroe Bank and Rockall by the Research Vessel S.T. “George Bligh”, of the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries, during April, 1921 (1923) (4)
- On the Coprolites of the Upper Greensand Formation, and on Flints (1873) (4)
- XXXVIII.—On the structure and affinities of the genus Catagma (1878) (4)
- Recumbent Folds Produced as a Result of Flow (1906) (3)
- A Method of Determining Specific Gravity (1891) (3)
- LVIII.—On the flint nodules of the Trimmingham chalk (1880) (3)
- An Experiment to Illustrate the Mode of Flow of a Viscous Fluid (1895) (3)
- On Some Eskimos' Bone Implements from the East Coast of Greenland (2)
- Crô Magnon Man: Imprints of his Hand (1914) (2)
- On the Structure and Affinities of the Genus Protospongia (Salter) (1880) (2)
- “Pithecanthropus erectus” and the Evolution of the Human Race (1895) (2)
- The Palæolithic Drawing of a Horse from Sherborne, Dorset (1926) (2)
- On a Method of Separating the Mineral Components of a Rock (1893) (2)
- On the origin of freshwater faunas: a study in evolution. By W.J. Sollas ... (1)
- IV.—On Plocamia plena, a new species of Echinonematous sponge (1879) (1)
- Man and the Ice Age (1923) (1)
- The Age of the Earth (1)
- On the Ventriculitæ of the Cambridge Upper Greensand (1873) (1)
- Proceedings of the Geological Society of London (1933) (1)
- The Age of the Earth (1)
- Excursion to the counties of Dublin and Wicklow (1893) (1)
- On Astroconia Granti, a new Lyssakine Hexactinellid from the Silurian Formation of Canada (1881) (1)
- A Method of Calculating the Expansion of a Substance on Vaporisation (1880) (1)
- Prehistoric Man and Beast (1)
- An Aberrant Foraminifer (1871) (1)
- A Flaked Flint from the Red Crag (1)
- V.—On the Foraminifera and Sponges of the Upper Greensand of Cambridge (1873) (1)
- On Pharetrospongia Strahani, Sollas, a fossil Holorhaphidote Sponge from the Cambridge “Coprolite” bed (1877) (1)
- Report on the Coral Reef at Funafuti (1897) (1)
- A Process for the Mineral Analysis of Rocks (1902) (1)
- On the intimate structure of crystals. Part III. Crystals of the cubic system with cubic cleavage (0)
- New British Crustacean (1872) (0)
- VI.—On the Conversion of Olivine into Serpentine (1895) (0)
- On the intimate structure of crystals. Part II. Crystals of the cubic system with cbic cleavage. Haloid compounds of silver (0)
- XLV.—OnPharetronema zingiberis,a new genus and species of Renierid sponge (1879) (0)
- Report to the committee of the Royal Society appointed to investigate the structure of a coral reef by boring (0)
- 2. On some recent discoveries among the spongidæ—living and fossil (0)
- Ancient Hunters.@@@The Evolution of Man.@@@Man before History.@@@Tantalus or the Future of Man. (1925) (0)
- XIII.—Note on the occurrence of sponge-spicules in Chert from the Carboniferous Limestone of Ireland (1881) (0)
- On the intimate structure of crystals. Part V.—Cubic crystals with octahedral cleavage (0)
- Excursion to Shotover Hill, Oxford (0)
- Fractured Flints from Selsey (1913) (0)
- A Method for the Comparative Study of the Human Skull, and Its Application to Homo sapiens and Homo neandertalensis (1922) (0)
- On the intimate structure of crystals. Part III. Crystals of the cubic system with cubic cleavage. Part IV. Cubic crystals with octahedral cleavage (0)
- Reports and Proceedings (1910) (0)
- II.—The Order of Consolidation of the Mineral Constituents of Igneous Rocks (1900) (0)
- Note on the Dicynotiont Vomer (1913) (0)
- VII.—On Striated Pebbles from the Triassic Conglomerate near Portskewet, Monmouth (1881) (0)
- Luminosity by Attrition (1920) (0)
- Late Palæolithic Art in the Cresswell Caves (1925) (0)
- I.—On Evolution in Geology (1877) (0)
- On the Occurrence of Sponge-spicules in the Carboniferous Limestone of Derbyshire (1899) (0)
- Reports and Proceedings (1909) (0)
- Proceedings (1910) (0)
- 98. The Chancelade Skull. (1925) (0)
- Miniature Physical Geology (1876) (0)
- On the intimate structure of crystals.—IV. Cubic crystals with octahedral cleavage (0)
- On the Intimate Structure of Crystals. Part VI. Titanic Oxide, Its Polymorphs and Isomorphs (1908) (0)
- 199. The Sagittal Section of the Skull. (1932) (0)
- Behind the Divining Rod (0)
- The Origin of Land Animals: a Biological Research (1892) (0)
- II.—On Eubrochus clausus, a Vitreo-hexactinellid Sponge from the Cambridge “Coprolite” Bed (1876) (0)
- On the intimate structure of crystals. Part I. Crystals of the cubic system with cubic cleavage (0)
- Palæolithic Shaft-straighteners (0)
- Man and the Ice Age (1924) (0)
- III.—Derived Limestones (1900) (0)
- III.—On the Rate of Increase of Underground Temperature (1901) (0)
- Radium and Geology (0)
- River Terraces of the Euphrates (1926) (0)
- 40. The Chancelade Skull (1926) (0)
- An account of the devonian fish, Palæospondylus Gunni, traquair (0)
- Behind the Divining Rod (1927) (0)
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