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Description: | [Letter 1835 Jun 24] Athenaeum [to] Sir H. Vivian [at the Board of Ordnance?] / A. Sedgwick. [2p. on 1 leaf, holograph signed. Urges an early decision to send De La Beche to carry out a geological survey of the Cornish coast. "The Admiralty have done a great injury to Cambridge & I fear also to the cause of science by removing our Professor". Part of the "Science and Medicine" purchase from Sothebys via Quaritch in 1977] | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/ | Subjects: | letter | Temporal: | 1835 | Source: | Science Museum | Creator: | Sedgwick, Adam, 1785-1873 | Identifier: | 1992-188/20 | Go to resource |
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