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unusual facts about Henry De la Beche


Halse Hall

The property belonged to Henry De la Beche who stayed there during 1823–24, while he made his geological survey of Jamaica.


Plesiosaurus

It was so-named ("near lizard") by William Conybeare and Henry De la Beche, to indicate that it was more like a normal reptile than Ichthyosaurus, which had been found in the same rock strata just a few years earlier.


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