Sidney Hugh Reynolds

Sidney Hugh Reynolds DSc, FGS (18 December 1867 – 20 August 1949) was an English geologist, palaeontologist, and zoologist.[1][2]

Reynolds was born in Brighton. He 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.[2] He was acting professor of zoology at Madras Christian College in 1891–1892 and in 1897–1898.[3] At the University of Bristol he was a lecturer from 1894 to 1899, 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.[2] He then became the curator of the Stroud District Cowle Museum.[1]

He was the president of Section "G" of the British Association in 1926.[2] 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.) He died in Clifton, Bristol, aged 81.

Selected publications
  • A Geological Excursion Handbook for the Bristol District. Bristol: J.W. Arrowsmith. 1912.
  • The Vertebrate Skeleton. Cambridge University Press. 1897.
  • British Pleistocene Mammalia. Collected Monographs, 1906, 1909, 1911, etc. London: The Palaeontographical Society.

References
  1. Johanson, Z.; Barrett P.M.; Richter, M.; Smith, M., eds. (2016). Arthur Smith Woodward: His Life and Influence on Modern Vertebrate Paeolontology. Special Publication 430. Geological Society, London. p. 105. ISBN 978-1-86239-741-5; 362 pages; hbk
  2. "Reynolds, Sidney Hugh (RNLS886SH)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
  3. "Reynolds, Sidney Hugh". Who's Who: 2065. 1919.


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