de la Beche

British  

/ də læ biːtʃ /

noun

1. Henry. 1796–1855, English geologist. His work led to the founding of the Geological Survey (1835)

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Example Sentences

Almost two centuries have passed without direct evidence of the neck biting De la Beche imagined.

From New York Times

In 1830, Henry De la Beche, an English paleontologist, composed a painting of “Duria Antiquior,” a vision of Mesozoic oceans.

From New York Times

Jackson and a colleague threatened to resign if his department did not rename its annual undergraduate award, which was given in honour of Henry De la Beche, a nineteenth-century geologist whose family’s sugar plantation in Jamaica benefited from the labour of more than 200 enslaved people.

From Nature

"De la Beche is a dirty dog," Murchison wrote to a friend in a typical outburst.

From Literature

One of the first, and most famous images, was Henry Thomas De la Beche’s Duria Antiquior.

From National Geographic