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ROBERT BAKEWELL (1768–1843)

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

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