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BAKEWELL, ROBERT (1768–1843)

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Originally appearing in Volume V03, Page 229 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BAKEWELL, See also:ROBERT (1768–1843) , See also:English geologist, was See also:born in 1768. He was an able observer, and deserving of mention as one of the earliest teachers of See also:general and See also:practical See also:geology. His Introduction to Geology (1813) contained much See also:sound See also:information, and reached a fifth edition in 1838. The second edition was translated and published in See also:Germany, and the third and See also:fourth See also:editions were reprinted in See also:America by See also:Professor See also:Silliman of Yale See also:College. Bakewell as author also of an Introduction to See also:Mineralogy (1819), and of Travels comprising Observations made during a See also:Residence in the Tarentaise, &c. (2 vols., 1823). He died at See also:Hampstead on the 15th of See also:August 1843.

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