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Letter from Adam Sedgwick (1785-1873) to John Phillips (1800-74), 1 Nov. 1872

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8781/451

Scope and Contents

Murchison's geological map, 1848, used Sedgwick's material; Sedgwick's paper on it, seven or eight years later, was suppressed by the Geological Society; why did the Council act so?; he will allude to the controversy in the preface to his Catalogue of Palaeozoic fossils

Dates

  • Creation: 1 Nov. 1872

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Language of Materials

English

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Presented by Richard Ford, 1971

Repository Details

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