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Wollaston, Thomas Vernon, 1822-1878 (English entomologist and malacologist)

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Letter to Mr [Thomas Vernon] Wollaston from Sir Charles Lyell, February 1856

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Identifier: Coll-203/2/folio(s) 208-210
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Letter to Mr Wollaston from Sir Charles Lyell concerning the deposits containing land shells on the island of Porto Santo and Madeira. He discusses the depth of the deposits and the number of species that are extant and extinct and are common to both islands, with envelope, February 1856. This letter was never sent.

Dates: February 1856
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Sir Charles Lyell / Notes and Correspondence on the geology of the Madeiran and Canary Islands

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