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Undelivered Lecture, written on board steamship 'America', September 1852

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Identifier: Coll-203/B14/14

Scope and Contents

Notes as being "MS notes on 'Unequal rate of change of species in contemporaneous areas- not delivered". Written on board the steamship, America, Sept 26-27, 1852. Original MS and long draft pp. 1-98. Along with: newspaper cutting from the Galway Vindicator, and Connaught Advertiser of the article on vegetable origins of Coal, by Professor King November 1851; and five offprints - 'On a Group of Erect Fossil Trees in the Sydney Coal-Field of Cape Breton by Richard Brown Esq.; 'An Account of the Fossil Trees found at St. Helen's by Edward William Binney and Robert Harkness;, from the London, Edinburgh and Dublin Philsophical Magazine and Journal of Science, XXXV, Vol 27. No. 180, October 1845; 'On Fossil Calamites found standing in an erect position in the Carboniferous Strata near Wigan, Lancashire, by E.W. Binney, and annotated 'Phil. Mag for lect,[ure] on Nov. 1847'; 'On the Great Lancashire and Cheshire Coal Fields' by E.W. Binney, read before the Geological Section of the British Association at Manchester 1842; 'Description of the Dukinfield Sigillaria' by E.W. Binney - also includes 'On a Group of Erect Fossil Trees in the Syndey Coal-field of Cape Breton by Richard Brown, Esq, Proceedings of the Geological Society 22 April 1846'.

Dates

  • Creation: September 1852

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Full Extent

From the Series: 11 folders (2 archive box (11-12 of 18))

Language of Materials

From the Fonds: English

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