Henry William Burrows (1858–1939) was an English architect and amateur palaeontologist, who 'devoted his leisure to Tertiary fossils'. Burrows was elected a Fellow of the Geological Society in 1900.[1] He was one of the founders of the Malacological Society of London in 1893, and was elected an honorary member in 1932.[2]

Selected works edit

  • With George Frederick Harris The Eocene and Oligocene beds of the Paris basin. London :University college, E. Stanford,1891.pdf
  • Burrows, H. W. & Holland, R. 1897. The foraminifera of the Thanet Beds of Pegwell Bay. Proceedings of the Geologists' Association, 15, 19–52.

References edit

  1. ^ "GSL/POR/48/34-01 Portrait of Henry William BURROWS". geolsocarchives.org.uk.
  2. ^ "HENRY WILLIAM BURROWS". Journal of Molluscan Studies. 6 December 1940. doi:10.1093/oxfordjournals.mollus.a064395.