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James Wright (palaeontologist)

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on 8 July 1878, the son of a relatively affluent furniture dealer in the town. He was educated locally at Kirkcaldy Burgh School and joined his father's firm aged around 14 or 15. It was later renamed
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Donovan, Stephen K.; Clark, Neil D. L. (November 2015). "A collection of pelmatozoans (Echinodermata) from the Lady Burn Starfish Beds (Upper Ordovician, Katian), SW Scotland".
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Kammer, Thomas W.; Ausich, William I. (June 2007). "Stratigraphical and geographical distribution of Mississippian (Lower Carboniferous) Crinoidea from Scotland".
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On his father's death in 1917 he took over the company as Director. He retired in 1930 and in 1934 moved to
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Biographical Index of Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1783–2002
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Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh
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He died on 28 January 1957. He was unmarried and had no children.
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due to his scientific contributions to the field of
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Index

FRSE
FGS
Lower Carboniferous
crinoids
Kirkcaldy
Fife
Edinburgh
Royal Society of Edinburgh
palaeontology
Edward Battersby Bailey
Murray Macgregor
John Pringle
George Walter Tyrrell
Hunterian Museum
Glasgow
CiteSeerX
10.1.1.507.511
doi
10.1017/S1755691007006068
S2CID
42055229
Biographical Index of Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1783–2002
ISBN
0-902-198-84-X
the original
doi
10.1144/sjg2015-001
S2CID
131445773
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