| Administrative History | The fossils sent by Henry De la Beche were those normally associated with the Carboniferous but found in a lower part of the geological sequence. They were sent by Lonsdale [the curator of the Museum] to John Lindley, an expert of coal measure flora, for identification, see: GSL/MUS/1/1/54.
The issue would spark the 'Devonian Controversy', leading to the delineation of the Devonian system by Roderick Murchison and Adam Sedgwick in 1839. |