Verkäufer Dennis Holzman Antiques, Cohoes, NY, USA
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AbeBooks-Verkäufer seit 15. Juli 1999
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In this autograph letter signed, Sedgwick states in full to an unknown recipient: My dear Sir, Many thanks for your note which I will this day forward to the Duke of Manchester [William Montagu]. I suppose Dr. Dickens address is Aberdeen Very truly yours/A Sedgewick P.S. Pray come again soon to Cambridge to report progress -Give my kind remembrances to your father. Written on two sides of a 4 ¼ x 3 ½ sheet of paper sent from the Athenaeum Club. Adam Sedgwick (1785-1873) was a conservative British geologist and the Edwardian Professor of Geology (1818-1873). He was the first to apply the term Cambrian to refer to the geological period of time between 570-505 million years ago; along with Sir Roderick L. Murchinson, he named the Devonian period, now dated 408-360 million years ago. Charles Darwin was his pupil, and he maintained a long relationship with him; however, he did not accept Darwin s thesis on the order of natural selection. Sedgwick was also against the inclusion of women nasty forward minxes --into Cambridge. Condition: In very good condition. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers A01870
Bibliografische Details
Titel: English Geologist Adam Sedgwick Autograph ...
Einband: No Binding
Zustand: Very Good
Signiert: Signed by Author(s)
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