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Paper, 'On the arrangement of the foliation and cleavage of the rocks of the north of Scotland' by Daniel Sharpe

Reference number: PT/45/1

Date: 1851

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45 manuscript pages including two figures.

Subject: Geology

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'On the arrangement of the foliation and cleavage of the rocks of the north of Scotland'.

Received by the Royal Society on 20 November 1851. Read 19 February 1852.

Abstract published in Abstracts of the Papers Printed in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London [later Proceedings of the Royal Society of London], Volume 6, 1854.

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PT/45/1
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1851
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Ink on paper
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45 pages
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Manuscript

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Daniel Sharpe

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Daniel Sharpe, Paper, 'On the arrangement of the foliation and cleavage of the rocks of the north of Scotland' by Daniel Sharpe, 1851, PT/45/1, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_45_1/paper-on-the-arrangement-of-the-foliation-and-cleavage-of-the-rocks-of-the-north-of-scotland-by-daniel-sharpe, accessed on 21 June 2025

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