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Add. MS a/201/77
Title
Letter from David Brewster
Date(s)
- 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 time… read more