Guy Ellcock Pilgrim

Henry Guy Ellcock Pilgrim , called Guy Pilgrim , (born December 24, 1875 in Stepney, Barbados , † September 15, 1943 in Upton near Didcot ) was a British paleontologist and geologist .

Life

Pilgrim came from a long family resident in Barbados, studied chemistry and then geology at University College London with a bachelor's degree in 1901 and received his doctorate there in 1908 (D. Sc.). From 1902 he was with the Geological Survey of India , where he was superintendent from 1920 until his retirement in 1930. He worked there in Burma, the Persian Gulf, Arabia, the Punjab, the Simla Hills, Balochistan and Bhutan. He also became curator of the Geological Museum in Calcutta in 1909. In the First World War he served from 1914 to 1919 as a Second Lieutenant in the 125th Napier's Rifles in Mesopotamia and Persia, for which he was awarded. From 1930 he was also a member of the Natural History Museum , where he did research in India after his retirement. In 1932 he visited the USA.

Pilgrim examined the geology of Arabia and Persia at the Geological Survey of India and, with his geological investigations in Oman and Bahrain, also carried out important preparatory work for the oil exploration that would later begin there. A focus of his work was also the vertebrate paleontology in India, especially the tertiary stratigraphy and fauna of the Siwalik hills at the foot of the Himalayas.

In 1926 he became a Fellow of the Asiatic Society of Bengal and in 1925 President of the Geology Section of the Indian Science Congress. In 1943 he became a Fellow of the Royal Society . In 1925 he became a corresponding member of the Paleontological Society .

In 1908 he married Beatrice Lucy Wrenford in Calcutta, with whom he had a son.

Fonts

• The geology of the Persian Gulf and adjoining portions of Persia and Arabia 1908
• Preliminary Note on a Revised Classification of the Tertiary Freshwater Deposits of India, Records of the Geological Survey of India 1910
• The Correlation of the Siwaliks with Mammal Horizons of Europe, Records of the Geological Survey of India 1913
• The Geology of Parts of the Persian Provinces of Fars, Kirman and Laristan 1925
• with WD West: The Structure and Correlation of the Simla Rocks, 1928
• with AT Hopwood: Catalog of the Pontian Carnivora of Europe in the Department of Geology, 1931
• Siwalik Antelopes and Oxen in the American Museum of Natural History, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 1937
• The Fossil Bovidae of India 1939

literature

• C. Forster-Cooper, AT Hopwood, LL Fermor, Obituary Notices of Fellows of the Royal Society, Volume 4, 1944, pp. 577-590, first page at JSTOR

Web links

• English biography