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Date: 1831
Format: Drawn in the back of a 1830-31 field notebook
Description: De la Beche is frustrated that it is raining and he cannot do work. Similar to a 1837 sketch. From the same fieldbook as the anti-Lyell cartoons and some cartoons on religion.
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Sources & further discussion:
First described in Rudwick, M. J. (1975). Caricature as a source for the history of science: De la Beche's anti-Lyellian sketches of 1831. Isis, 66(4), 534-560. Link [www.journals.uchicago.edu]
Image yoinked from:
The British Geological Survey Geological blog [britgeoheritage.blogspot.com/]
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