Correpondence relating to Sir Roderick Impey Murchison's dispute with Adam Sedgwick about Silurian classification, c1852
Series
Identifier: Coll-74/10/3
Scope and Contents
The correpondence relating to Sir Roderick Impey Murchison's dispute with Adam Sedgwick about Silurian classification consists of:
- correspondence
- notes and related papers
Dates
- c1852
Creator
Language of Materials
English
Physical Description
21 items None which affect the use of this material
Biographical / Historical
Sir Roderick Impey Murchison and Adam Sedgwick were once close collaborators and friends. This was terminated by a heated dispute over the boundary between Cambrian and Silurian. The disputed overlapping area was subsequently defined as Ordovician, by which time both Murchison and Sedgwick were dead.
Murchison corresponded with a number of individuals on the subject, including Leonard Horner and Edouard De Verneuil.
Murchison corresponded with a number of individuals on the subject, including Leonard Horner and Edouard De Verneuil.
Extent
From the Fonds: 2 metres
Physical Location
Gen.523
Physical Description
21 items None which affect the use of this material
Processing Information
None
Processing Information
Grant Buttars 09 August 2002
- Geology, Stratigraphic Cambrian
- Geology, Stratigraphic Ordovician
- Horner, Leonard (educationalist and geologist)
- Murchison, Sir Roderick Impey, 1792-1871 (1st Baronet | Scottish geologist)
- Professional Criticism
- Sedgwick, Adam, 1785-1873 (geologist and professor of geology, University of Cambridge)
- Verneuil, Edouard De, 1805-1873 (French geologist)
- silurian
Repository Details
Part of the University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections Repository
Contact:
Centre for Research Collections
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Centre for Research Collections
University of Edinburgh Main Library
George Square
Edinburgh EH8 9LJ Scotland
+44(0)131 650 8379
is-crc@ed.ac.uk