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Eminent Living Geologists

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

Adam Sedgwick*
Affiliation:
Woodwardian Professor of Geology in the University of Cambridge.

Extract

In every branch of Natural Science there are earnest zealous workers, whose life-long devotion, to; its cause entitles them to be warmly remembered and even beloved, especially when their labours have been protracted over more than half a century; so long indeed, that to many of the scientific youth of the present day they are only known by name.

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Original Articles
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1870

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References

page 146 note 1 Mr. Lonsdale had suggested, in December, 1837, that they were intermediate in character between the Silurian and Carboniferous, and therefore of “Old Red Sandstone” age. Proceedings Geol. Soc, vol. v., p. 727.