Correpondence relating to Sir Roderick Impey Murchison's dispute with Adam Sedgwick about Silurian classification
- Reference:GB 237 Coll-74/10/3
- Dates of Creation:c1852
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- Language of Material:English
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The correpondence relating to Sir Roderick Impey Murchison's dispute with Adam Sedgwick about Silurian classification consists of:
- correspondence
- notes and related papers
Administrative / Biographical History
Sir Roderick Impey Murchison and Adam Sedgwick were once close collaborators and friends. This was terminated by a heated dispute over the boundary between Cambrian and Silurian. The disputed overlapping area was subsequently defined as Ordovician, by which time both Murchison and Sedgwick were dead.
Murchison corresponded with a number of individuals on the subject, including Leonard Horner and Edouard De Verneuil.
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Grant Buttars 09 August 2002
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