53 Harley St. | Jany 24. 1855
My dear Sir
I find that Mr David Forbes is to read a really important paper1 on the foliation of rocks in Scotland & Norway the gist of which is to show the gneiss, mica schist & crystalline limestone have their foliation, as a general rule parallel to the planes of stratification, what I have always thought to be the rule tho’ not without exception.
I expect Mr Darwin2 to be present & should be very glad if you could give me the favour of your company at dinner at the Geological Club3 at Clunns Hotel4 Covent Garden at ½ past 5 ock & go with us to the Socy5 Wedy 31st Jany.
Believe me | sincerely yrs | Chas Lyell
Profr Tyndal
RI MS JT/1/L/46
Mr David Forbes is to read a really important paper: Forbes’s paper, ‘On the Causes Producing Foliation in Rocks; and on Some Observed Cases of Foliated Structure in Norway and Scotland’ was read at the Geological Society on 31 January 1855 and published in the Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London, 11 (1855), pp. 166–85.
Mr Darwin: the eminent naturalist and geologist Charles Darwin (1809–82).
Geological Club: A club consisting of a select group of Fellows of the Geological Society of London who dined together before attending meetings of the society.
Clunns Hotel: Thomas Clunn was the proprietor of Richardson’s Hotel in Covent Garden.
the Socy: the Geological of London, located in Somerset House on the Strand.
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