Ramsay Heatley Traquair

Ramsay Heatley Traquair (1840-1912) was a Scottish naturalist who became a leading expert on fossil fish. His childhood was spent in Scotland in Rhynd, Perthshire and Edinburgh. He studied medicine and then fish anatomy at Edinburgh University. He was Professor of Zoology at the Royal College of Science, Dublin, Ireland, and then Keeper of Natural History (1873) at the Royal Scottish Museum, Edinburgh.

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