A correspondence relating to the discovery of gold in Australia.

  • Earl, George Windsor.
Date:
1853
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A correspondence relating to the discovery of gold in Australia. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    Lordship is a member of the Council. I therefore trust that your Lordship will kindly undertake to bring the subject forward, and with every sentiment of respect and esteem, I have the honor to remain, Your Lordship’s most obedient Servant, GEO. WINDSOR EARL. To the Right Hon. Lord Colchester. No. 2. Letter from the Right ILon.Lord Colchester to Mr. Earl. ( Copy.) Kidbrooke, August 2, 1852. Sir, I beg leave to acknowledge the receipt of your letter dated from Singapore April 24th, and enclosing a copy of a printed letter* which you had addressed to me as a member of the Council of the Royal Geographical Society, on the subject of a paragraph in Mr. Wyld’s “ Notes on the Distribution of Gold throughout the World.” Circumstances having prevented me from attending the meet- ings of the Geographical Society this year, and from having leisure to sift the facts and dates given in Mr. Wyld’s paragraph, I requested a friend, also in the Council, to look into the matter before I communicated with Sir R. Murchison on the subject. The result of this inquiry was to show that Mr. Wyld was in error as to the date of the address in which Sir Roderick alluded to the resemblance between the Australian and Ural chains. This passage occurred, not in the Presidential Address of 1845, but in that of 1844, and was consequently prior to the date of your paper read before the Society in 1845. Upon subsequently writing to Sir R. Murchison, he informed me that in his Presidential Address for the present year (which I had not heard delivered and which was not then published) he had already stated the case at length, and that he would write to you, transmitting a copy of this discourse,. and pointing out that Mr, Wyld’s paragraph, had been inserted without his (Sir R. M.’s) knowledge, and had since been at his request expunged from all the later copies. I trust you will be satisfied from this explanation that no slight could * The precediirg letter was printed, and a copy forwarded to each member of the Council.—G. W. E.