Item 77 - Letter from David Brewster

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Add. MS a/201/77

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Letter from David Brewster

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  • 25 Sept. 1829 (Creation)

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4 pp

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Allerly by Melrose - DB has read WW's essay on mineralogical classification with much pleasure, and considers it a vast improvement upon Mohs's system [Friedrich Mohs] - 'a provisional system which will soon disappear'. Hopes WW will now devote his timeread more

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