Sir Roderick Impey Murchison

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Geological Society President

London - 1831 - ????

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Notes

Murchison served two terms as President, the first starting in 1831 after he had served as secretary for the five previous years.

T. G. Bonney, ‘Murchison, Sir Roderick Impey, baronet (1792–1871)’, rev. Robert A. Stafford, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, May 2009 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/19555, accessed 27 Sept 2015]


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