ALS, 1822 January 22 : Montpellier, to Henry R. Schoolcraft, Albany.

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ALS, 1822 January 22 : Montpellier, to Henry R. Schoolcraft, Albany.

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Thanks the geologist/ethnologist for the gift of his memoir on the Fossil Tree. Acknowledges the advancing research of geologists, yet notes "opposite Theories which have been espoused; one of them regarding water, the other fire, as the great Agent employed by nature in her work."

1 p. ; 25 x 20 cm.

Copley Press, J S Copley Library

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Copley Press, J S Copley Library

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