| Description | Murchison correspondence: letter from Henry WITHAM, Great King Street, Edinburgh, 3 Apr 1830. Re: Has heard from his brother Charles Silvertop how kind Murchison was in reviewing and bringing forward his paper [On the lacustrine basins of Baza and Alhama in the province of Granada, and similar deposits in other parts of Spain (1830)]; modern botanists too cautious in respect to fossil plants, so he and his friend Mr Nicol with assistance of Dr Graham have been studying them and are therefore anxious to know about the fossils which he found by the River Tweed, wonders if botanists such as John Lindley would object to his idea that the plants are not vascular cryptogamic or monocotyledons bu classed amongst the conifers or dicotyledonous plants; the pleasure it would have afforded him hearing Murchison reading his paper on the fossil fox; taking steps towards the purchase of the Cotherston Estate. |