Frederick Richard Cowper Reed (27 June 1860 – 8 February 1946) was an English paleontologist and geologist who studied invertebrate fossils mainly in Britain but also travelled and wrote a book on the geology of the

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Early life and education

Reed was born in London and studied at

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before going to

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, where he passed with first class in the Natural Tripos part I (1891) and part 2 (1892). He won the Harkness scholarship for geology and paleontology as well as the Sedgwick Prize in 1901 for his work on the geological history of the

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rivers. He received an Sc.D. in 1914. He worked at the

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from 1892 initially as an assistant.

Career

Reed spent most of the interwar period abroad, living in

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from 1922 to 1933 where he helped to examine and identify remains of the

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and

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. From 1933 to early 1935 he lived in the

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where he worked on the remains of the

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before returning home to

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that July. Reed's work was on British paleontology with interests in Brachiopods and Trilobites. He also contributed to the ''Paleontologica India'' between 1906 and 1944. In 1921 he published a ''Geology of the British Empire'' based on travels through Africa, India and Canada.

Publications

* Reed, F. R. C. (1917). XXVI.�
The Ordovician and Silurian Brachiopoda of the Girvan District
'' Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh'', ''51''(4), 795-998. doi:10.1017/S0080456800011959 * Reed, F. R. C. (1935). LII.—'' Notes on the Neogene Faunas of Cyprus''.—III. ''The Pliocene Faunas''. ''

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'', ''16''(95), 489–524. doi:10.1080/00222933508655078 * Reed, F. R. C. (1935). I.—
Notes on the neogene faunas of Cyprus
'.—II. ''Annals and Magazine of Natural History'', ''15''(85), 1–37. https://doi.org/10.1080/00222933508654941

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Cowper Reed, F. R. English palaeontologists English geologists 1860 births 1946 deaths