Riddell, Sandford, 1838-1881 (Fellow of the New Orleans Academy of Sciences, Assistant State Geologist of Texas)
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Found in 1 Collection or Record:
Letters from Humphreys, Andrew Atkinson to Charles Lyell, 24 June 1865 - 28 May 1866
File — Box Box 1.7: Series Coll-203/1 (Lyell 1)
Identifier: Coll-203/1/140
Scope and Contents
Correspondence consists of:
Lyell summarises first letter as: Gen. Humphreys to queries on the Missi[ssippi] Delta - 24th June [18]'65. Letter also contains a small diagram and discusses the geology of New Orleans and the presence of types of clay.
Letter containing a memorandum of sediment papers collected at Carrolton by the Delta Survey in 1851 and reporting in of the results of...
Dates:
24 June 1865 - 28 May 1866