| Description | Murchison correspondence: letter from Joseph Barclay PENTLAND, Paris, 19 May 1835.
Re: requesting Murchison's assistance in helping [Achille] Valenciennes, of the Jardin des Plantes, to obtain British fossil shells, asking Murchison to write to let him know if the French candidates up for election at the Royal Society are successful, and reporting recent criticism of Buch's map of Tenerife, and the theory of elevation craters. |