Dawson, Sir John William, geologist and naturalist, born in Pictou, Nova Scotia; studied in Edinburgh; distinguished himself as a palæontologist; published in 1872, “Story of the Earth and Man”; in 1877, “Origin of the World”; and recently, “Geology and History”; called in question the Darwinian theory as to the origin of species; (b. 1820).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Dawson, George * Day, John