Peter Martin Duncan

Peter Martin Duncan (April 20th 1824 - May 28th 1891) is a British paleontologist .

Duncan is born with Twickenham where it receives, like in Suisse, part of its education. It is graduate after being entered at the department of Médecine of the King' S College of London in 1842, then it assists a doctor with Rochester. After that it practices with Colchester 1848 with 1860, period during which he becomes also mayor of this city during one year.

It turns over to London in 1860 to Blackheath for a few years and starts to be devoted full-time to research, initially in Botanique then in Géologie and Paléontologie. Its attention is drawn in particular by the Fossile S of corals. In 1863 it contributes, for the Geological Society off London, with a series of articles on the fossil corals of the the Antilles, in which it describes not only the Espèce S but also their influence on the geology of the Tertiaire. Corals coming from various areas from the world and geological formations are studied by Duncan which becomes an authority in this field. It prepares also an important work on the British fossil corals for the Palaeontographical Society -- company of paleontology -- of 1866 with 1872 published like a supplement with the monograph of Henri Milne Edwards and Jules Haime.

In addition to its work on the fossil corals, he studies certain alive species as well as extinct and modern forms of sea urchin S and others family S. In 1877 it publishes six volumes of Cassell' S Natural History -- natural history of Cassell .

He is elected member of the Royal Society in 1868 and becomes professor with the King' S College in 1870. He off chairs Geological Society London of 1876 1877 which decrees the to him Médaille Wollaston in 1881.

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