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SIR CHARLES LYELL (1797-1875) A SIGNED PART LETTER POSSIBLY TO ADAM SEDGWICK DISCUSSING RHINOCEROUS, MAMMOTH AND SNAKE EGGS
Partial translation:
'Some perfect eggs fossilised in the Tufer. They are considered to be snakes eggs...Your and Murchison's views in regard to the Hartz except that they make out the plants to be true Devonian...And I....Carboniferious. Romer has made out four reptiles...being of the Devonian...
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