Letter to Sir Charles Lyell from Dr [Joseph] Lister, 14 June 1854
Scope and Contents
Letter to Sir Charles Lyell from Dr (Joseph) Lister enclosing a memoranda which Lister thought might be of interest to Lyell. The memoranda contains information about schistose basalt, sienitic greenstone, a bog called the "Atuleiros", the Lagoon at the Serra, fossils at Canical, polished stone on the road to St. Anna, a sea-fountain or blower called "The Forja", a swarm of Locusts and Mr Smith states in his "Original Paper" that he has found a rolled mass of granite amongst limestone and an Arthoceratite in a piece of limestone, 14 June 1854.
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- Creation: 14 June 1854
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English
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