de la Beche

/ də læ biːtʃ /

noun

1. de la BecheHenry17961855MEnglishSCIENCE: geologist Henry. 1796–1855, English geologist. His work led to the founding of the Geological Survey (1835)

Example Sentences

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

From New York Times

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

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