Henry Alleyne Nicholson (1844–1899)

British scientist; born in Penrith, Cumberland, on the 11th of September 1844, and educated at the Universities of Göttingen and Edinburgh. He was appointed professor of natural history and botany in the University of Toronto in 1871; professor of natural history in the University of St. Andrew’s in 1875, and in 1882 regius professor of natural history in the University of Aberdeen. He published original scientific works, principally geological and palæontological, among them Geology of Cumberland and Westmoreland (1866); Palæontology of Ontario (1875); and Textbook of Zoology. See also The Ancient Life-History of the Earth.