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Sir Roderick Impey Murchison Collection

Background imageSir Roderick Impey Murchison Collection: Royal Institution - Sir Roderick Murchison's Lecture on the Distribution of Gold Ore, 1850

Royal Institution - Sir Roderick Murchison's Lecture on the Distribution of Gold Ore, 1850. Creator: Unknown
Royal Institution - Sir Roderick Murchison's Lecture on the Distribution of Gold Ore, 1850. Geological talk in London

Background imageSir Roderick Impey Murchison Collection: Sir Roderick Impey Murchison, Baronet, KCB, FRS (engraving)

Sir Roderick Impey Murchison, Baronet, KCB, FRS (engraving)
1099008 Sir Roderick Impey Murchison, Baronet, KCB, FRS (engraving) by English School, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Sir Roderick Impey Murchison, Baronet, KCB, FRS)

Background imageSir Roderick Impey Murchison Collection: Sir Roderick Impey Murchison, Scottish geologist (litho)

Sir Roderick Impey Murchison, Scottish geologist (litho)
981293 Sir Roderick Impey Murchison, Scottish geologist (litho) by English School, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Sir Roderick Impey Murchison (1792-1871)

Background imageSir Roderick Impey Murchison Collection: Murchison Snuff Box

Murchison Snuff Box
The base of the gold snuff box presented to Sir Roderick Impey Murchison by Tsar Alexander II

Background imageSir Roderick Impey Murchison Collection: Roderick Impey Murchison, Scottish geologist, 1870. Artist: Carlo Pellegrini

Roderick Impey Murchison, Scottish geologist, 1870. Artist: Carlo Pellegrini
Roderick Impey Murchison, Scottish geologist, 1870. Murchison (1792-1871) investigated old rocks beneath the red sandstone

Background imageSir Roderick Impey Murchison Collection: Roderick Impey Murchison, Scottish-born British geologist, c1860

Roderick Impey Murchison, Scottish-born British geologist, c1860. Murchison (1792-1871) investigated old rocks beneath the red sandstone

Background imageSir Roderick Impey Murchison Collection: Cleodora sp. holoplanktonic mollusc

Cleodora sp. holoplanktonic mollusc
Fossilised specimen of holoplantktonic molluscs originating from Pliocene rocks, near Turin, Italy

Background imageSir Roderick Impey Murchison Collection: Sir Roderick Impey Murchison (1792-1871)

Sir Roderick Impey Murchison (1792-1871)
Portrait of Sir Roderick Impey Murchison, a geologist. Murchison was knighted in 1846, and appointed director-general of the British Geological Survey in 1855

Background imageSir Roderick Impey Murchison Collection: Poem by Mary Anning (1799-1871)

Poem by Mary Anning (1799-1871)
Encomium Murchisonaum, a poem written c. 1840s by Mary Anning in honour of the geologist Sir Roderick Impey Murchison (1792-1871). Page 2 of 3



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