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Fifty years ago Geology was in its infancy; there were but few who cultivated it as a Science...If an unfortunate lover of nature was seen hammering in a stone quarry, he was generally supposed to be slightly demented.

Peter Bellinger Brodie

Peter Bellinger Brodie

Peter Bellinger Brodie

Born: 1815

Died: 1897 (aged 82)

Bio: Peter Bellinger Brodie was an English geologist and churchman, the son of the conveyancer Peter Bellinger Brodie and nephew of Sir Benjamin C. Brodie. He was born in London in 1815.

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