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Finding Number (Click this to view full catalogue structure)MS78/11
TitleLetter from Robert H. Schomburgk to Richard Owen
Extent1 item
Date1847
DescriptionLetter, dated 2 April 1847 and written from Surbiton near Kingston, Surrey, is addressed 'My dear Sir'. The recipient is named at the foot of the letter as Professor Richard Owen F.R.S.

Schomburgk sends Owen some fossil sharks' teeth from Barbados and asks for his opinion as to whether they all belong to the same species
Access StatusOpen
Administrative HistorySir Robert Hermann Schomburgk (1804-1865), a botanist
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