Sujet
Roderick Impey Murchison, Scottish-born British geologist, c1860. Artist: Unknown
Légende
Roderick Impey Murchison, Scottish-born British geologist, c1860. Murchison (1792-1871) investigated old rocks beneath the red sandstone. He defined the Silurian (1835), Permian (c1845), and in cooperation with Adam Sedgwick (1785-1873), the Devonian geological periods. Murchison became a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1826, President of the Royal Geographical Society in 1843 and was knighted in 1846.
Oxford Science Archive
Date
1860
Crédit
Photo12/Heritage Images
Notre référence
HRM19B65_303
Model release
Non
Licence
Droits gérés
Format disponible
50,0Mo (4,7Mo) / 30,0cm x 41,7cm / 3542 x 4931 (300dpi)