Sidney Hugh Reynolds
{{Short description|English geologist, paleontologist and zoologist}}
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Sidney Hugh Reynolds DSc, FGS (18 December 1867 – 20 August 1949) was an English geologist, paleontologist, and zoologist who was born in Brighton.{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4EafCwAAQBAJ&pg=PA105|title=Arthur Smith Woodward: His Life and Influence on Modern Vertebrate Paeolontology|publisher=Geological Society, London|year=2016|isbn=978-1-86239-741-5|editor=Johanson, Z.|series=Special Publication 430|page=105|postscript=; 362 pages; hbk|editor2=Barrett P.M.|editor3=Richter, M.|editor4=Smith, M.}}{{acad|name=Reynolds, Sidney Hugh|id=RNLS886SH}} He died in Clifton, Bristol, aged 81 leaving behind a widow and a daughter.{{Cite journal|last=Trueman|first=A.E|date=1949|title=Prof. S. H. Reynolds|url=https://www.nature.com/articles/164473b0.pdf|journal=Nature|volume=164|issue=4168|pages=473–474|doi=10.1038/164473b0|s2cid=4068317|doi-access=free|bibcode=1949Natur.164..473T }}
Education and career
Reynolds was educated at Marlborough College and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he received B.A. (Nat.
Sci. Tripos, Pt I, 1st Class) 1889; (Pt II, 1st Class, 1890); M.A. 1894; Sc.D. 1913. He was acting professor of zoology at Madras Christian College in 1891–1892 and in 1897–1898.{{cite journal|year=1919|title=Reynolds, Sidney Hugh|url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015047639912;view=1up;seq=2107|journal=Who's Who|page=2065}} He taught Geology and Zoology at the University of Bristol in 1894 where he became an assistant professor in 1899 and then a professor in 1900. In 1910 he was appointed the chair of geology, a position held until he retired as professor emeritus in 1933. an assistant professor of zoology and geology from 1899 to 1900, a professor of zoology and geology from 1900 to 1910, and a professor of geology from 1910 to 1933, when he retired as professor emeritus. Following his retirement as a professor, Reynolds went on to become the curator of the Stroud District Cowle Museum.
Selected publications
- {{cite book|title=A Geological Excursion Handbook for the Bristol District|year=1912|location=Bristol|publisher=J.W. Arrowsmith}}
- {{cite book|title=The Vertebrate Skeleton|series=Cambridge biological series |year=1897|publisher=Cambridge University Press|url=https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/001503518}}
- {{cite book|title=British Pleistocene Mammalia. Collected Monographs, 1906, 1909, 1911, etc.|location=London|publisher=The Palaeontographical Society|url=https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/100609904}}
Photography
- Photographs by Reynolds are held in the Conway Library at the Courtauld Institute of Art, and are currently being digitised.{{Cite web|date=2020-06-30|title=Who made the Conway Library?|url=http://blog.courtauld.ac.uk/digitalmedia/2020/06/30/who-made-the-conway-library/|access-date=2021-03-29|website=Digital Media}}
- He catalogued 5 photograph albums of the Orient and France, 1880-1925 for Bristol University Special Collections.{{Cite web|last=National Archives|title=photograph albums (5) the Orient and France|url=https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/N14141837|access-date=29 March 2021}}
- Reynolds sat for a half-plate nitrate negative by Lafayette in 1929.{{Cite web|title=Sidney Hugh Reynolds - National Portrait Gallery|url=https://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/person/mp102552/sidney-hugh-reynolds|access-date=2021-03-29|website=www.npg.org.uk|language=en}}
Awards
Reynolds was the president of Section "G" of the British Association in 1926. He was awarded the Lyell Medal in 1928. (In the same year William Dickson Lang was also awarded the Lyell Medal for work done independently.)
References
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External links
- {{Internet Archive author |sname=Sidney Hugh Reynolds}}
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Category:People educated at Marlborough College
Category:Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge
Category:Academics of the University of Bristol
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