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c. 1823 |
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- Born in Dublin (exact year of birth uncertain), second son of Dr. Simon McCoy, physician
and professor of materia medica, Queen’s College, Galway.
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1838 |
- First paper published in Magazine of Natural History: ‘Remarks on
Mr Eyton’s arrangement of the Gulls.’
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1839 |
- Arranged collections of the Museum of the Geological Society of Dublin and became
a member of that Society.
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c. 1840 |
- Engaged by Sir Richard Griffith to determine fossils collected by Griffith and the
staff of the Boundary Survey for a Geological Map of Ireland.
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