George Bellas Greenough
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George Bellas Greenough FRS FGS was a pioneering English geologist. He is best known as a synthesizer of geology rather than as an original researcher.
Portrait by Maxim Gauci
General Sketch of the Physical and Geological Features of British India (1855)
The grave of George Bellas Greenough, Kensal Green Cemetery
Maria Graham
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Maria Graham, Lady Callcott, was a British writer of travel books and children's books, and also an accomplished illustrator.
George Bellas Greenough
…geological research. He also courted controversy, after using his presidential address in 1834 to cast aspersions on a paper on great earthquakes by Maria Graham. Greenough advocated an empirical approach to the early science; his scepticism of theoretical thinking courted controversy amongst some contemporaries…
Maria, Lady Callcott by Sir Thomas Lawrence
Maria Callcott, painted by her second husband, Sir Augustus Wall Callcott.
Dragon Tree & Peak of Teneriffe. Drawing by Maria Callcott in her book Journal of a Voyage to Brazil, published 1824
Laranjeiras outside Rio de Janeiro 1821. Drawing by Maria Callcott in Journal of a Voyage to Brazil.