Roderick Murchison's Russian passport

Roderick Murchison's Russian passport, by Murchison, was elected to the Society on 3 December 1824, was a Scottish geologist who famously travelled in Russia between 1840 and 1845 to study its Palaeozoic rocks. His studies in Russia resulted in his defining a third geological system " the Permian, named after Perm " to add to the two he had already classified " the Silurian and the Devonian. The results of his fieldtrips were published as: Murchison, R I, The geology of Russia in Europe and the Ural Mountains, London: John Murray (1845). Printed paper

1824 1843 Classified Defining Devonian Elected Famously Geological Geologist Murchison Palaeozoic Passport Perm Permian Resulted Results Roderick Silurian Studies Travelled Ural

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