Henry Thomas de la Beche

Standard Name: Beche, Henry Thomas de la

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Family and Intimate relationships	E. A. Dillwyn	EAD 's maternal grandfather was the nineteenth-century geologist Sir Henry Thomas de la Beche . His publications included Notes on the Present Conditions of the Negroes in Jamaica (1825), which held that the institution and...

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1831

The Philpot sisters—Mary , Margaret and Elizabeth —of Lyme Regis established a fossil museum which became famous; they supplied material to such geologists as William Buckland , Richard Owen , and Henry de la Beche .

Alic, Margaret. Hypatia’s Heritage: A History of Women in Science. Women’s Press, 1985.

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1851

The first nationally funded institutions for scientific education, the School of Mines and the Museum of Practical Geology , were established.

Gascoigne, Robert Mortimer. A Chronology of the History of Science, 1450-1900. Garland, 1987.

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Knight, David. The Age of Science: The Scientific World-View in the Nineteenth Century. Basil Blackwell, 1986.

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