Biography
William Guybon Atherstone, English-born South African physician and geologist (Nottingham, England 27 May 1814 – Grahamstown, Cape Colony 26 June 1898)
ACHIEVEMENTS
Did some original work studying horse sickness and tick fever (with his father)
Collected fossils, minerals and other geological specimens, vertebrates and molluscs, plant specimens and seeds from South Africa and sent specimens to British institutions
Identified the first diamond in South Africa (1867)
With A.G. Bain foun the first dinosaur fossil in South Africa (1844)
Discovered Tapinocephalus atherstonii in 1871, studied and described in 1876
Observed a lunar occultation of star nu-Geminorum (1850)
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Nuggets of the Gouph. Cape Monthly Mag (1873)
From Grahamstown to the Gouph. Cape Monthly Mag. (1871)
Geology of Uitenhage. East. Prov. Mont. Mag. 1:518-32 & 581-95, 1857
Namaqualand and its mining prospects. East. Prov. Mont. Mag. 1:642-51 & 2:1-8, 1857
HONORS
Atherstonia Woodward 1899 (Fossil Fish)
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