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Date: 1837
Format: Letter to his daughter Elizabeth, written from Tregony, a village in Cornwall.
Description: Similar to a cartoon from seven years prior, but I love that entirety of the letter is just a sketch of De la Beche looking forlorn out a window. De la Beche was presumably frustrated that he could not do any work that day.
I can't decipher one of the words in cursive -- see the unmodified version below. Suggestions welcome.
Rudwick (1985) ends his description of the cartoon with the remark, "The mice have no geological significance."
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Sources & further discussion:
Discussed briefly in Rudwick, M. J. (1988). The great Devonian controversy: the shaping of scientific knowledge among gentlemanly specialists. University of Chicago Press.
Also the Devonian Controversy page of the British Geological Survey [www.bgs.ac.uk]. However I disagree that the boxers are "no doubt" a reference to the Devonian controversy. It could just be a depiction of the room.
Image yoinked from:
British Geological Survey [www.bgs.ac.uk]
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