Lyell (Sir Charles, first baronet, geologist, 1797-1865) Autograph Letter signed to Robert Harkness, 2½pp., 8vo, 53 Harley Street, [London], 21st January 1865, "I have just returned from Berlin... before I left town I gave orders that a copy of the new edition of my 'Elements' [Elements of Geology, 1838] should be sent to you by post so that you should get it before it was in the hands of the public... You shall have one of the earliest copies which you have more than earned by the kind manner in which you verified my Arbroath section. I have cited you among other things for having confirmed Sir Roderick's [Roderick Impey Murchison] views of the Silurian age of certain metamorphic rocks in Scotland", tears along folds, browned, laid down on album leaf. ⁂ Robert Harkness (1816-78), geologist.
Lyell (Sir Charles, first baronet, geologist, 1797-1865) Autograph Letter signed to Robert Harkness, 2½pp., 8vo, 53 Harley Street, [London], 21st January 1865, "I have just returned from Berlin... before I left town I gave orders that a copy of the new edition of my 'Elements' [Elements of Geology, 1838] should be sent to you by post so that you should get it before it was in the hands of the public... You shall have one of the earliest copies which you have more than earned by the kind manner in which you verified my Arbroath section. I have cited you among other things for having confirmed Sir Roderick's [Roderick Impey Murchison] views of the Silurian age of certain metamorphic rocks in Scotland", tears along folds, browned, laid down on album leaf. ⁂ Robert Harkness (1816-78), geologist.
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