| Description | Murchison correspondence: letter from Henry WITHAM, Great King Street, Edinburgh, 7 Feb 1832. Re: Having been engaged in the study of fossil plants, is eager to obtain cuttings of tropical species which he can use for comparison, asks Murchison to use his contacts to get some examples; intends to publish on the subject in the summer which may be the first time that the internal structure of the Lycopodiopsida has been seen in the fossil state and requests some examples of recent Club Moss; delighted that Mr [Louis Albert] Necker is in Edinburgh, who read a paper at the Royal Society; is hard at work on Buckland's Cycadia; cholera has not yet spread to Edinburgh; is soon off to Paris to meet his son who is returning from Italy in poor health. |