Letter to Sir Charles Lyell from William Benjamin Carpenter, 09 January 1866
Item
Identifier: Coll-203/1 folio(s) 505-506
Scope and Contents
Letter, with envelope, reporting that Carpenter had been showing Rowney thin sections of Canadian Eozoon, a species of foraminefera to prove its existance to him. Asserts that Story-Maskerlyne and Busk are convinced it exists and that King and Rowney had been studying rocks which were too heavily metamorphosed. 09 January 1866.
Dates
- 09 January 1866
Creator
Language of Materials
English
Extent
1 letter
1 envelope
Creator
Repository Details
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