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TitleMurchison correspondence: letter from Lady Seymour GORDON-CUMMING
Date8 Jun 1842
LevelItem
Extent1 letter
FormatDocument
DescriptionMurchison correspondence: letter from Lady Seymour GORDON-CUMMING, Altyre House, Forres, Scotland, 8 Jun 1842. Re: pursuing her late mother's wish to find out if the new specimens discovered are in fact Pterichthys, has yet to find a perfect example of that genus or Coccosteus and that her drawings were a reconstruction from many examples.
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Administrative HistoryLady Eliza Gordon-Cumming collected fossils from 1839-1842, mostly from the Lethen Bar quarry.
Access ConditionsAccess is by appointment only. Please contact the Archivist for further information.
LanguageEnglish
ArchNoteDescription by John Thackray; revised by Caroline Lam.
CreatorNameBAKER | Lady | Anne Seymour Conway Cresswell | d.1858 | née Cumming-Gordon | eldest daughter of Lady Eliza Maria Gordon-Cumming
Persons
CodePersonNameDates
DS/UK/1805BAKER; Lady; Anne Seymour Conway Cresswell (d.1858); née Cumming-Gordon; eldest daughter of Lady Eliza Maria Gordon-Cummingd.1858
DS/UK/1144CUMMING; Lady; Eliza Maria Gordon- (1797-1842); née Campbell; fossil collector1797-1842
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