Sidney Hugh Reynolds

Sidney Hugh Reynolds DSc, FGS (18 December 1867 – 20 August 1949) was an English geologist, paleontologist, and zoologist who was born in Brighton.^[1][2] He died in Clifton, Bristol, aged 81 leaving behind a widow and a daughter.^[3]

Education and career

Reynolds was educated at Marlborough College and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he received B.A. (Nat. Sci. Tripos, Pt I, 1st Class) 1889; (Pt II, 1st Class, 1890); M.A. 1894; Sc.D. 1913.^[2] He was acting professor of zoology at Madras Christian College in 1891–1892 and in 1897–1898.^[4] He taught Geology and Zoology at the University of Bristol in 1894 where he became an assistant professor in 1899 and then a professor in 1900.^[2][3] In 1910 he was appointed the chair of geology, a position held until he retired as professor emeritus in 1933. an assistant professor of zoology and geology from 1899 to 1900, a professor of zoology and geology from 1900 to 1910, and a professor of geology from 1910 to 1933, when he retired as professor emeritus.^[2][3] Following his retirement as a professor, Reynolds went on to become the curator of the Stroud District Cowle Museum.^[1]

Selected publications

• A Geological Excursion Handbook for the Bristol District. Bristol: J.W. Arrowsmith. 1912.
• The Vertebrate Skeleton. Cambridge biological series. Cambridge University Press. 1897.
• British Pleistocene Mammalia. Collected Monographs, 1906, 1909, 1911, etc. London: The Palaeontographical Society.

Photography

• Photographs by Reynolds are held in the Conway Library at the Courtauld Institute of Art, and are currently being digitised.^[5] 
• He catalogued 5 photograph albums of the Orient and France, 1880-1925 for Bristol University Special Collections.^[6]
• Reynolds sat for a half-plate nitrate negative by Lafayette in 1929.^[7]

Awards

Reynolds was the president of Section "G" of the British Association in 1926.^[2] He was awarded the Lyell Medal in 1928. (In the same year William Dickson Lang was also awarded the Lyell Medal for work done independently.)