| Administrative History | The paper is likely to have been written whilst Murchison and his wife Charlotte, along with Charles Lyell were in Nice in August 1827. |
| ArchNote | Source: From: M Kolbl-Ebert, "The geological travels of Charles Lyell, Charlotte Murchison and Roderick Impey Murchison in France and northern Italy (1828)", in Wyse Jackson, P N (ed.) 'Four Centuries of Geological Travel: The Search for Knowledge on Foot, Bicycle, Sledge and Camel', Geological Society, London, Special Publications, vol 287 (2007), pp109-117. Description by John Thackray, revised by Caroline Lam |