Transactions of the Royal Geological Society of Cornwall, Volume 11The Society, 1895 - Geology Vol. 6, includes the society's annual reports for 1844-46. |
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Page 595 - Catalogue of a stratigraphical collection of Canadian rocks prepared for the World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, 1893.
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