Adam Sedgwick Greetings Card

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Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Adam Sedgwick NPG x45090

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by William Edward Kilburn

One of the founders of modern geology. In 1818 he was elected to the Woodwardian Professorship of Geology at the University of Cambridge, a post he held for the next fifty-five years. He set out on his first geological excursion in the summer of 1818 and delivered a course of lectures the following year. He quickly amassed a large collection of rocks and fossils, enhancing the Woodwardian's reputation as a geological museum, and proposed the Devonian period of the geological timescale. Charles Darwin was... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

Images are printed in their original proportions, within a white border.

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