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    Sir Henry Thomas De la Beche KCB, FRS (10 February 1796 – 13 April 1855) was an English geologist and palaeontologist, the first director of the Geological...
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  • named in 1971 by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee after Sir Henry Thomas de la Beche, English geologist, first Director-General of the Geological Survey...
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    Adam Sedgwick, Roderick Impey Murchison, Charles Lyell, Henry Thomas De la Beche, Thomas Henry Huxley, Joseph Prestwich, Archibald Geikie, Jethro Teall...
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    Thomas Henry Huxley (4 May 1825 – 29 June 1895) was an English biologist and anthropologist who specialized in comparative anatomy. He has become known...
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    daughter of Lewis Llewelyn Dillwyn and Elizabeth (née De la Beche). She had an older brother Henry (b. 1843) who became a barrister. and two younger sisters...
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    by Sir Henry De la Beche, and opened in 1841. The museum also provided some student places for the study of mineralogy and metallurgy. Sir Henry was the...
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  • Geological Survey, or its equivalent, since foundation: 1835–1855 Henry De la Beche 1855–1871 Roderick Murchison 1871–1881 Andrew Ramsay 1882–1901 Archibald...
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  • Pater-Noster-Row. p. 2. Retrieved 3 February 2022 – via Bodleian Libraries. Henry Thomas De la Beche (1839). Report on the Geology of Cornwall, Devon and West Somerset...
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    for her scientific contributions. However, her friend, geologist Henry De la Beche, who painted Duria Antiquior, the first widely circulated pictorial...
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    paleontology of the formation was studied intensively by Hugh Miller, Henry Thomas De la Beche, Roderick Murchison, and Adam Sedgwick—Sedgwick's interpretation...
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    system, during which work he corresponded with eminent geologist Henry Thomas De la Beche. He wrote a book, with contributions from Edwin Lankester, published...
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    geologists grouped in this area, named in 1971 by the UK-APC after Sir Henry Thomas de la Beche (1796-1855), English geologist, first Director-General, Geological...
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    Conybeare, Henry Warburton, and Thomas Webster, and amongst others from Henry Thomas De la Beche, John Farey, the Rev. J. Hailstone, David Mushet, Thomas Biddle...
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  • series of experiments; the conclusions were opposed to those of Sir Henry Thomas de la Beche and Lyon Playfair, on whose recommendation Welsh steam coal had...
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  • of the Halse family— Major Thomas Halse (d. 1702) and Thomas Halse (d. 1727). The property belonged to Henry De la Beche who stayed there during 1823–24...
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  • 1841–1843 Roderick Impey Murchison 1843–1845 Henry Warburton 1845–1847 Leonard Horner 1847–1849 Henry Thomas De la Beche 1849–1851 Charles Lyell 1851–1853 William...
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  • archives.bgs.ac.uk. "Past Fellows". "The Geological Survey under Sir Henry Thomas De La Beche's successors". earthwise.bgs.ac.uk. Continental Tectonics and Mountain...
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    Ichthyosauria (category Taxa named by Henri Marie Ducrotay de Blainville)
    In 1819, he wrote two articles about specimens found by Henry Thomas De la Beche and Thomas James Birch. A last publication of 1820 was dedicated to...
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    of Roderick Murchison, with the result that he received, from Sir Henry De la Beche, an appointment on the Geological Survey, on which he served for forty...
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  • presided over by Sir Henry Thomas de la Beche. Initial membership included: Prof. Thomas Bell, Frederick E. Edwards, Sir Philip de Malpas Grey Egerton...
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    Sir Thomas Henry Holland KCSI KCIE FRS FRSE (22 November 1868 – 15 May 1947) was a British geologist who worked in India with the Geological Survey of...
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    Plesiosaur (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    discovered in the collection of Colonel Thomas James Birch, was described by William Conybeare and Henry Thomas De la Beche, and recognised as representing a...
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    realistic geological setting, was painted by British paleontologist Henry De la Beche. Dubbed Duria Antiquior — A more Ancient Dorset, this watercolor painting...
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    William Buckland (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    would inspire Henry De la Beche to paint Duria Antiquior, the first pictorial representation of a scene from the distant past. After De le Beche had a lithographic...
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    to the staff of the geological survey of Great Britain managed by Henry De la Beche. Phillips spent some time studying the Palaeozoic fossils of Devon...
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  • Leeds, which was carried out. In 1843 he was associated with Sir Henry Thomas de la Beche in designs for the drainage of Windsor, and in 1844 designed drainage...
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    while her maternal grandfather was the geologist and palaeontologist Henry De la Beche. Dillwyn's paternal great-grandfather was the American abolitionist...
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    Henry Bolingbroke Woodward (24 November 1832 – 6 September 1921) was an English geologist and paleontologist known for his research on fossil crustaceans...
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    Practical Geology in Jermyn Street, London, in succession to Sir Henry De la Beche, who had been the first to hold these offices. Official routine now...
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    William Henry Fitton (24 January 1780 – 13 May 1861) was an Irish physician and amateur geologist. Fitton was born in Dublin and educated at Trinity College...
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