(Henry) Guy Ellcock Pilgrim (Stepney, Barbados, 24 December 1875 – Upton, then in Berkshire, 15 September 1943) was a British geologist and palaeontologist. He was a Fellow of the Royal Society and Superintendent of the Geological Survey of India, and made significant contributions to Cenozoic continental stratigraphy and vertebrate palaeontology.
Biography Pilgrim was born the son of Henry Ellcock Pilgrim and Beatrice Lucy Wrenford. After studies at the local Harrison College, he attended University College London where he received his Bachelor of Science in 1901 and Doctor of Science in 1908. He was appointed to the Geological Survey of India in 1902 and promoted to superintendent in 1920, a post he held until his retirement in 1930. He spent much of his retirement at the Department of Geology at the British Museum.
Pilgrim explored the geology of Arabia and Persia. He was the first European to visit parts of Trucial Oman and the first geologist to explore Bahrain Island where his discoveries lead to the present oil exploitations there.
Publications Title Year The geology of the Persian gulf and adjoining portions of Persia and Arabia by Pilgrim 1908 The fossil Giraffidae of India 1911 Fossil mammals, India and Burma 1911 The vertebrate fauna of the Gaj series in the Bugti Hills and the Punjab 1912 Collected papers 1913 New Siwalik primates and their bearing on the question of the evolution of man and the anthropoidea 1915 The geology of parts of the Persian provinces of Fars, Kirman, and Laristan 1925 The Perissodactyla of the Eocene of Burma 1926 The fossil Suidae of India 1926 The fossil Carnivora of India 1927 Geological map of the Simla Hills 1927 A Sivapithecus palate and other primate fossils from India 1927 Catalogue of the Pontian Bovidae of Europe in the Department of Geology 1928 The structure and correlation of the Simla rocks 1928 The Artiodactyla of the Eocene of Burma 1928 Catalogue of the Pontian Carnivora of Europe in the Department of Geology by British Museum (Natural History). Dept. of Geology 1931 A fossil skunk from Samos 1933 Two new species of sheep-like antelope from the Miocene of Mongolia 1934 Correlation of ossiferous sections in the Upper Cenozoic of India 1934 Siwalik antelopes and oxen in the American Museum of Natural History 1937 The fossil Bovidae of India 1939 The screw-horned antelope of the European Upper Pliocaens and its systematic position 1939 Middle Eocene Mammals from North-west India 1940
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