Life of Sir Roderick I. Murchison, Bart;, K. C. B., F. R. S., Sometime Director-General of the Geological Survey of the United Kingdom, Vol. 2 of 2
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Excerpt from Life of Sir Roderick I. Murchison, Bart;, K. C. B., F. R. S., Sometime Director-General of the Geological Survey of the United Kingdom, Vol. 2 of 2: Based on His Journals and Letters; With Notices of His Scientific Contemporaries and a Sketch of the Rise and Growth of Palæozoic Geology in Britain Released from the trammels of office, Murchison began to prepare for an early start to the Continent. His Russian work needed much additional confirmation and elucidation from adjacent countries, and he resolved to perfect it, as far as possible, by further research in the field. In the midst of these preparations a small but useful piece of work was begun, which is referred to in the subjoined letter: - "My dear Sedgwick, - The enclosed is part of a very wee map of England about to be published by the Society of Useful Knowledge, and which I have (after promising to do something for three years) at last thrown into form. You perceive, for its size, that nothing very precise can be attempted, and all I wish you to do is to mark with your pencil, in Wales, the tracts which are igneous, and those which are pure slates without fossils, putting a (X) on the fiery dogs. No name will be appended to it, and no reputation is involved. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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