Background
Henry Samuel Boase was born in London, England on the 2nd of September 1799, the eldest son of Henry Boase, banker, of Madron, Cornwall.
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Henry Samuel Boase
Henry Samuel Boase was an English geologist.
Education
Henry Samuel Boase was educated partly at Tiverton grammar-school, and partly at Dublin, where he studied chemistry, he afterwards proceeded to Edinburgh and took the degree of M. D. in 1821.
Career
Boase firstly settled for some years as a medical practitioner at Penzance; there geology engaged his particular attention, and he became secretary of the Royal Geological Society of Cornwall. The results of his observations were embodied in his Treatise on Primary Geology (1834). In 1837 he removed to London, where he remained for about a year. In 1838 he became partner in a firm of bleachers at Dundee. He retired in 1871, and died on the 5th of May 1883.
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Henry Samuel Boase's Treatise on Primary Geology was a work of considerable merit in regard to the older crystalline and igneous rocks and the subject of mineral veins.
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