| Description | 'The Measurement of Geological Time' by Alfred Russel Wallace, corrected proofs, third revise of part 2, dated 21.12.69, pasted onto 5 sheets of red-lined blue paper, annotated on first sheet in Alfred Russel Wallace's hand ' 'Nature' - March 3rd 1870', in white lined paper cover with title and notes in Alfred Russel Wallace's hand.
Notes: Smith: S159. The Measurement of Geological Time [according to Island Life (3rd ed., p. 223), first presented in 1869 as a paper to Section C, Geology, at the annual BAAS meetings, but I can find no evidence to support this]. I. Nature 1: 399-401 (17 Feb. 1870) / II. Nature 1: 452-455 (3 March 1870).
Subject: Geology, Time |