146 Miscellaneous Intelligence. . : 
Pembrokeshire, of Lyme Regis, Dorsetshire, and of Beer in Devon- — 
shire. 
Mr. De la Beche possessed extensive estates in Jamaica. He now 
visited his property,—Halse Town, in the neighborhood of Spanish 
own, and on his return, in 1825, he communicated to the Geological 
Society his remarks on the geology of that West Indian Island, of which 
nothing had been previously known. 
Between 1827 and 1830, Mr. De la Beche, published numerous im- 
Portant geological papers in the Transactions of the Society, the Phi- 
book for geologists throu 
editions. In 1832 Mr. D d te 
supply the data for coloring geologically the maps, then in pro; es 
publication, of the Trigonometrical Survey. This o 
cepted, and at the Land’s End, in Cornwall, was commenced the 
work of this eminent geologist’s life. Mr. De la Beche, who bore h 
