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Henry De la Beche was a British geologist, paleontologist, and scientific administrator who founded the Geological Survey of Great Britain in 1835 and became its first director. He promoted systematic geological mapping as a practical public service supporting mining, agriculture, engineering, and scientific research. De la Beche also produced geological illustrations and wrote influential works that helped establish geology as a professional discipline in nineteenth-century Britain.
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Henry De la Beche ranks #89 of 129 in the Geologist ranking, behind Niles Eldredge, ahead of Andrew Lawson.
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