Letter to Sir Charles Lyell from Edouard Claparede, 6 October 1859
Item
Identifier: Coll-203/1 folio(s) 552-553
Scope and Contents
Letter, with envelope, to Sir Charles Lyell from Rene-Edouard Claparede sending information on the nature of the research of Johan Japetus Steenstrup and Johan Georg Forchhammer relating to the former peoples of Denmark. He states that although they are interesting from an archaeolological point of view, they do not have the importance that Lyell attaches to them. The findings do not have the same import as the axes discovered in France or Devon. He then gives a precis of the research, 6 October 1859.
Dates
- 6 October 1859
Creator
Language of Materials
English
Extent
1 letter
1 envelope
- Archaeology
- Axes
- Claparede, Rene-Edouard, 1832-1871 (professor of comparative anatomy)
- Denmark
- Devon England
- Forchhammer, Johan Georg, 1794-1865 (Danish zoologist)
- France
- Lyell, Sir Charles, 1797-1875 (1st Baronet | Scottish geologist)
- Steenstrup, 1794-1865 (Danish zoologist and professor of chemistry and mineralogy, University of Copenhagen (Denmark))
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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