Henry De la Beche
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Sir Henry Thomas De la Beche KCB, FRS was an English geologist and palaeontologist, the first director of the Geological Survey of Great Britain, who helped pioneer early geological survey methods. He
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Idealised view of Slaves cutting sugar cane on a plantation in Jamaica, drawn by himself, 1825
An 1834 etching by De la Beche that appears in the beginning of his Researches in Theoretical Geology. A landmark scientific depiction of Earth as seen from space.
Duria Antiquior – A More Ancient Dorset is a watercolour painted in 1830 by Henry De la Beche, based on fossils found by Mary Anning
Mary Anning
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Mary Anning was an English fossil collector, dealer, and palaeontologist. She became known internationally for her discoveries in Jurassic marine fossil beds in the cliffs along the English Channel at
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…journey. Henry De la Beche spent his early life living with his mother in Lyme Regis, where he acquired a love for geology through his friendship with Mary Anning. At the age of fourteen he entered the Royal Military College, then at Great Marlow in Buckinghamshire. The peace of 1815, however, changed his career…
Anning with her dog, Tray, painted before 1842; the hill Golden Cap can be seen in the background.
Blue plaque where Mary Anning was born and had her first fossil shop, now the Lyme Regis Museum
1842 sketch of Anning's house
Blue Lias cliffs, Lyme Regis