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Murchison, Sir Roderick Impey to Merivale, Herman 2 April 1859, CO 60:6, no. 3572, 41.

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Public Offices document. Minutes (2).
Murchison thanks the Colonial Office for their donation of gold specimens from British Columbia for the Museum of Practical Geology.
The minutes “Put by.”
Murchison to Merivale (Permanent Under-Secretary)
Museum of Practical Geology
2 April 1859
Sir
I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 24th March accompanying an extract of a despatch from the Governor of British Columbia, and a box containing specimens of Gold from that Colony.
I request you to offer my best thanks to Sir E. Bulwer Lytton for so valuable an addition to our Museum; and also beg you to thank him for the transmission of the Governor's remarks upon the Climate of the Colony, which will be laid before the Royal Geographical Society.
I remain etc.
Robert Murchison
Minutes by CO staff
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Put by.
ABd 4 Apl
Sir R. Murchison speaks of these to me as extremely curious specimens.
HM Apl 4
C Apl 5
Murchison, Sir Roderick Impey to Merivale, Herman 2 April 1859, CO 60:6, no. 3572, 41. The Colonial Despatches of Vancouver Island and British Columbia 1846-1871, Edition 2.0, ed. James Hendrickson and the Colonial Despatches project. Victoria, B.C.: University of Victoria. https://bcgenesis.uvic.ca/B595MI10.html.

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