| Description | Murchison correspondence: letter from Henry WITHAM, Great Kings Street, Edinburgh, 1 Jan 1830. Re: Sends Murchison a copy of his paper on the fossil flora of an ancient world [probably "On the vegetation of the first period of the world, during the deposit of the transition and coal series", Philosophical Magazine, vol VII (1830)]; sends slices of two fossil trees which have recently been discovered at Coldstream on the Tweed, and is most anxious to find out what genus and species they are, also sent samples to Brongniart; does not think the Wideopen fossil tree is Dicotyledonous; sends the letter by his brother Col Silvertop, wonders if Murchison is likely to visit Edinburgh in the summer; anxious to see Sedgwick's book on the Durham deposits |