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TitleMurchison correspondence: letter from Henry FREARS
Date8 Aug 1845
LevelItem
Extent1 letter
FormatDocument
DescriptionMurchison correspondence: letter from Henry FREARS, Moscow, 8 Aug 1845. Re: detailing the efforts taken to procure a piece of flesh from a mammoth and a description of where the specimen was found; sends the mammoth flesh and an ichthyosaur vertebra he has recently found; offers to send examples of Russian specimens to Murchison's friends as they are soon to be sought after following the publication of 'The Geology of Russia...'; thanks Murchison for the present of books.
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LanguageEnglish
ArchNoteDescription by John Thackray; revised by Caroline Lam.
CreatorNameFREARS | Henry | fl.1842-1846 | member of the Moscow Society of Naturalists
Persons
CodePersonNameDates
DS/UK/2198FREARS; Henry (fl.1842-1846); member of the Moscow Society of Naturalistsfl.1842-1846
DS/UK/1127KEYSERLING; Alexander Friedrich Michael Lebrecht Nikolaus Arthur Graf von (1815-1891); geologist1815-1891
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NA138Russia
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