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SOME little time ago an eminent geologist, Professor Gümbel of Munich, applied to Sir Roderick Murchison for specimens of the Deep-sea Soundings which have lately been the subject of so much discussion. Sir Roderick mentioned Dr. Gümbel's wish to me, and I immediately sent him a small quantity of North Atlantic mud from 2,350 fathoms, which had been preserved in spirit. The following translation of a letter, dated April 18th, 1870, with which Dr. Gümbel has favoured me, and which embodies the result of his researches hitherto, will, I am sure, be read with the greatest interest by geologists and biologists. I may mention that I long since found coccoliths in the num-mulitic limestone of Egypt.
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HUXLEY, T. The Deep-Sea Soundings and Geology . Nature 1, 657–658 (1870). https://doi.org/10.1038/001657a0
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