Letter to Sir Charles Lyell from William Benjamin Carpenter, 9 July 1850
Item
Identifier: Coll-203/1 folio(s) 495-496
Scope and Contents
Letter to Sir Charles Lyell from William Benjamin Carpenter concerning the identification of a sample fossil from the Nummulites species, the engagement of a draughtsman, the contents of a paper read by Williamson at the Royal Microscopic Society concerning Ortbitolina and foraminefera and an invitation to dinner. 09 July 1850.
Dates
- 9 July 1850
Creator
Language of Materials
English
Extent
1 letter
- Carpenter, William Benjamin, 1813-1885 (naturalist)
- Draftsmen
- Fossils
- Howe, Samuel Gridley, 1801-1876 (philanthropist)
- Leymerie, Alexandre, 1801-1878 (French geologist)
- McCoy, Sir Frederick, 1823-1899 (professor of mineralogy and geology, Queen?s College, Belfast)
- Nummulites
- Royal Microscopic Society
- Sedgwick, Adam, 1785-1873 (geologist and professor of geology, University of Cambridge)
- Williamson, William Crawford, 1816-1895 (professor of natural history and botany, Owens College, Manchester)
Creator
Repository Details
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+44(0)131 650 8379
heritagecollections@ed.ac.uk