From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Roderick Impey Murchison
Date:
[24 April 1859]
Source of text:
RS:HS 12.422 (C: 23.263 and Geological Society)
Summary:
Comments on Robert Stephenson's theory regarding the presence of fossil plants in Arctic regions and on possible astronomical causes of such fossilization; gives some of his own theories.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project