Roderick Murchison's travel permit for Russia

Travel permit for Russia, by Travel permit, issued by Tsar Nicholas I, to Roderick Murchison, allowing him to travel in Russia. 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. Printed paper

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