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