Letter, Trinity College, Cambridge, March 7th, 1821, to Rev. Mr. Rogers / A. Sedgwick. 1821.

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Letter, Trinity College, Cambridge, March 7th, 1821, to Rev. Mr. Rogers / A. Sedgwick. 1821.

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Letter to The Rev. Mr. Rogers, asking for information about some bones and a human skull found by Rogers. He also menions surveying in the west of England and traveling with Professor Conybeare and his brother William Conybeare, who co-founded the Carboniferous System.

[2] p. ; 23 cm.

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Conybeare, William Daniel, 1787-1857

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Epithet: geologist, Dean of Llandaff British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001035.0x00024b ...

Sedgwick, Adam, 1785-1873

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Adam Sedgwick was one of the founders of modern geology. He proposed the Devonian period of the geological timescale. Later, he proposed the Cambrian period, based on work which he did on Welsh rock strata. Though he had guided the young Charles Darwin in his early study of geology, Sedgwick was an outspoken opponent of Darwin's theory of evolution by means of natural selection. From the description of Letter to Richard Owen, [1860?], January 8. (Huntington Library, Art Collections &...

Rogers, Thomas, 1760-1832.

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