Henry William Burrows Explained

Henry William Burrows
Birth Date:	1858
Death Date:	1939
Nationality:	English
Occupation:	Architect, Amateur Palaeontologist
Known For:	Founder of the Malacological Society of London, Contributions to Tertiary fossils
Awards:	Honorary Member of the Malacological Society of London (1932)

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

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.

Web site: GSL/POR/48/34-01 Portrait of Henry William BURROWS. geolsocarchives.org.uk.
Henry William Burrows. 6 December 1940. Journal of Molluscan Studies. 10.1093/oxfordjournals.mollus.a064395 .