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    <mods:title>Letter to Roderick I. Murchison</mods:title>
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    <mods:title>Letter to Roderick I. Murchison, 17 October 1864</mods:title>
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    <mods:namePart>Livingstone, Charles, 1821-1873</mods:namePart>
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    <mods:namePart>Murchison, Roderick I., 1792-1871</mods:namePart>
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    <mods:description>Famous geologist, best known for his description of Silurian strata. President of the Royal Geographical Society 1843-45, 1851-53, 1856-59 and 1862-71. Met Livingstone in 1856 and they became close friends. Partially responsible for the Zambezi expedition and the attempt to settle the question of the sources of the Nile.</mods:description>
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