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Gardner writes: 'I have the honour to make known the results attending the expen­diture of £75, placed in my hands by the Government Grant Com­mittee for the purpose of investigating the fossil floras of Scotland, which has been expended at Ardtun Head.'

Annotations in pencil and ink throughout.

Subject: Palaeontology

Received 30 November 1885. Read 17 December 1885. Communicated by Joseph Dalton Hooker.

A version of this paper was published in volume 39 of the Proceedings of the Royal Society as 'Second Report on the evidence of fossil plants regarding the age of the tertiary basalts of the North-East Atlantic'.

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PP/7/19
Earliest possible date
1885
Physical description
Ink and graphite pencil on paper
Page extent
5 pages
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Manuscript

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John Starkie Gardner

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John Starkie Gardner, Paper, 'Second Report on the evidence of fossil plants regarding the age of the tertiary basalts of the North-East Atlantic' by J [John] Starkie Gardner, 1885, PP/7/19, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pp_7_19/paper-second-report-on-the-evidence-of-fossil-plants-regarding-the-age-of-the-tertiary-basalts-of-the-north-east-atlantic-by-j-john-starkie-gardner, accessed on 12 November 2024

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    Dates: 1882 - 1894

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