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Papers of Sir Charles Lyell
    Correspondence of Sir Charles Lyell
        Correspondence of Sir Charles Lyell, Ca-De

Letter to Sir Charles Lyell from Timothy Abbott Conrad

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Reference Code

GB 0237 Sir Charles Lyell Gen. 109 Lyell 1/561-562

Date(s)

February 1840

Extent and medium of the unit of description

1

letter

Name of creator

Conrad | Timothy Abbott | American geologist

Scope and Content

Scope and Content

Letter to Sir Charles Lyell from Timothy Abbott Conrad concerning fossil and shell specimens, the geological age of Canada shells, number of extinct shells in fluviatile deposits, number of freshwater shells in Middle and Lower Tertiary strata and the localities of tertiary strata and their fossils, February 1840.

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