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Letters received by Sir Roderick Impey Murchison, mid 19th century

 Series
Identifier: Coll-74/10/4

Scope and Contents

The letters from Sir Roderick Impey Murchison to Charles Wentworth Dilke and related material consist of:

  1. 86 letters, alphabetically arranged

Dates

  • Creation: mid 19th century

Creator

Language of Materials

English

Physical Description

86 letters None which affect the use of this material

Biographical / Historical

Sir Roderick Impey Murchison corresponded with a number of people throught his life, amongst them geologists such as William Branwhite Clarke, Hugh Miller, Sir Andrew Crombie Ramsay and Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich Alexander von Humbolt, gold mining pioneer Edward Hammond Hargraves and astronomer Sir John Frederick William Herschel.

Extent

From the Fonds: 2 metres

Physical Location

Gen.523

Physical Description

86 letters None which affect the use of this material

Processing Information

None

Processing Information

Grant Buttars 09 August 2002

Repository Details

Part of the University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections Repository

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