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HENRY SAMUEL BOASE (1799-1883)

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Originally appearing in Volume V04, Page 96 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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HENRY See also:SAMUEL See also:BOASE (1799-1883)  , See also:English geologist, the eldest son of See also:Henry See also:Boase (1763-1827), banker, of Madron, See also:Cornwall, was See also:born in See also:London on the 2nd of See also:September 1799 . Educated partly at See also:Tiverton See also:grammar-school, and partly at See also:Dublin, where he studied See also:chemistry, he afterwards proceeded to See also:Edinburgh and took the degree of M.D. in 1821 . He then settled for some years as a medical practitioner at See also:Penzance; there See also:geology engaged his particular See also:attention, and he became secretary of the Royal See also:Geological Society of Cornwall . The results of his observations were embodied in his See also:Treatise on See also:Primary Geology (1834), a See also:work of considerable merit in regard to the older crystalline and igneous rocks and the subject of BOASE See also:mineral See also:veins . In 1837 he removed to London, where he remained for about a See also:year, being elected F.R.S . In 1838 he became partner in a See also:firm of bleachers at See also:Dundee . He retired in 1871, and died on the 5th of May 1883 .

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