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Roderick Murchison, 1st Baronet

British geologist (1792-1871)

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11 images from works
  • Sir Roderick Impey Murchison. Photograph by John & Charles Watkins.
  • Sir Roderick Impey Murchison. Wood engraving after T.D. Scott, 1871, after Wilson & Beadell.
  • Sir Roderick Impey Murchison. Lithograph by T. H. Maguire, 1849.
  • British inventors, politicians and military men, gathered in a room at Buckingham Palace. Engraving by C.G. Lewis, 1863, after T.J. Barker.
  • Sir Roderick Impey Murchison. Photograph after C. Silvy.
  • Roderick Impey Murchison. Photograph by Maull & Polyblank.
  • Sir Roderick Impey Murchison. Photograph.
  • British inventors, politicians and military men: a key to the identities of the sitters. Engraving by C.G. Lewis, 1863, after T.J. Barker.
  • Sir Roderick Impey Murchison. Stipple engraving by C. Cook after T. H. Maguire, 1849.
  • Sir Roderick Impey Murchison. Colour lithograph by C. Pellegrini [Ape], 1870.
  • Sir Roderick Impey Murchison. Mezzotint by W. Walker, 1851, after W. H. Pickersgill, 1849.

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6 works

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    Siluria : a history of the oldest rocks in the British Isles and other countries with sketches of the origin and distribution of native gold, the general succession of geological formations, and changes of the earth's surface / by Sir Roderick Impey Murchison.

    Roderick Murchison, 1st Baronet | Date: 1867
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    Outline of the geology of the neighbourhood of Cheltenham / By Roderick Impey Murchison.

    Roderick Murchison, 1st Baronet | Date: 1834
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    Outline of the geology of the neighbourhood of Cheltenham / By R.I. Murchison.

    Roderick Murchison, 1st Baronet | Date: 1845
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    [Sir Roderick Impey Murchison correspondence].

    Roderick Murchison, 1st Baronet | Date: 2008-
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    The Silurian system, founded on geological researches in the counties of Salop, Hereford, Radnor, Montgomery, Caermarthen, Brecon, Pembroke, Monmouth, Gloucester, Worcester, and Stafford : with descriptions of the coalfields and overlying formations / By Roderick Impey Murchison.

    Roderick Murchison, 1st Baronet | Date: 1839
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