The American Cyclopædia (1879)/Falconer, Hugh

​FALCONER, Hugh, a British palæontologist, born at Forres, Scotland, Feb. 29, 1808, died in England, Jan. 31, 1865. He studied at the universities of Aberdeen and Edinburgh, received his diploma as physician in 1829, was employed as surgeon by the East India company, and in 1832 as director of a botanical garden in one of the Anglo-Indian towns, whence he explored the Himalaya. He published "Selections from the Bostan of Saadi" (London, 1838), and (jointly with T. Proby Cautley) Fauna Antiqua Sivalensis (1846), a laborious work, with descriptions of numerous fossils in the Sivalik hills. The "Palæontological Memoirs of Hugh Falconer" (2 vols., 1868) include a sketch of his life.

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