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Traquair would spend the next 33 years working in
Edinburgh in charge of the museum's natural history collections, building up a large collection of fossil fish. One of the locations where Traquair carried out work on fossil fish was the gorge of
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Traquair trained as a medical doctor, but his thesis was on aspects of fish anatomy. He held posts as
Professor of Natural History and Professor of Zoology in England and Ireland, before returning to his native Edinburgh to take up a post at the
194:(1874); Henry (Harry) Moss (1875); and Hilda (1879). That same year, Traquair was transferred (again by the government) to Edinburgh to become the first Keeper of the Natural History Collections at the Museum of Science and Art (later the
268:. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1874, also serving several periods as Councillor, and being a Vice-President of the Society from 1904 to 1910. He was elected to the Geological Society of London in 1874.
198:). This position had been created by the government to ensure that the museum collections remained independent rather than under the control of the University of Edinburgh's Professor of Natural History,
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graduating with a degree in medicine in August 1862. He was presented with a gold medal for his MD thesis on flatfish, on the "Asymmetry of the
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Ramsay Heatley Traquair was born on 30 July 1840 in the manse at
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