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From:
Robert Chambers
To:
William Kemp
Date:
16 Oct 1847
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library (MS Add. 10252/51)
Summary:
Would like to spend the following Tuesday reviewing the Eildon terraces with WK.
Contributor:
Ruth Cramond
Would like to spend the following Tuesday reviewing the Eildon terraces with WK.
Wants WK to undertake a new survey of the hill.
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Visits London and Paris; describes Parisian architecture, museums, galleries and boulevards; the layout and operation of the Jardin des Plantes including sketches of mineral cabinets and cases in its museum; studied insects at the British Museum to identify his collection of American Coleoptera; desires to study one family thoroughly with regard to the theory of the origin of species; Ray Society; Oken's Elements of Physiophilosophy and variety, distribution and arrangement of species.