Life of Sir Roderick I. Murchison, Bart.; K.C.B., F.R.S.: Sometime Director-general of the Geological Survey of the United Kingdom. Based of His Journals and Letters; with Notices of His Scientific Contemporaries and a Sketch of the Rise and Growth of Palæozoic Geology in Britain, Volumen 2J. Murray, 1875 |
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