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Fossil Plants

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Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Created For = NAHSTE

Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:

Letter to Sir Archibald Geikie from John Hutton Balfour, 29 March 1873

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Identifier: Coll-74/11/8/7
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Letter to Sir Archibald Geikie from John Hutton Balfour telling him that he has left fossil planty specimens from Palestine with the janitor, as he was not at the Senate meeting. The specimens include a petrified olive and a pertified fig.

Dates: 29 March 1873
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Sir Archibald Geikie / Correspondence of Sir Archibald Geikie (A-H) / Correspondence to Sir Archibald Geikie: A Bachellery to Thomas Forster Brown

List of fossil shells from Grand Canary Island, 6 June 1856

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Identifier: Coll-203/2/folio(s) 221-223
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List of fossil shells on Grand Canary Island from [Samuel Pickworth] Woodward including fossils of fishes and plants,with envelope, 6 June 1856.

Dates: 6 June 1856
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Sir Charles Lyell / Notes and Correspondence on the geology of the Madeiran and Canary Islands

Partial translation of a letter from Professor Heer to Sir Charles Lyell, 1858

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Identifier: Coll-203/4/11
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Partial translation of a letter from Professor Heer to Sir Charles Lyell regarding Etna fossil leaves, 1858.

Dates: 1858
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Sir Charles Lyell / Notes and Correspondence on the geology of Mount Etna

Professor Heer on Fossil plants, 1850s

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Identifier: Coll-203/4/30
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Document by Professor Heer on the subject of fossil plants of Farsano, 1850s.

Dates: 1850s
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Sir Charles Lyell / Notes and Correspondence on the geology of Mount Etna