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Letter from Dr. William Aitken, Glasgow, to John Hutton Balfour
GB 235 RBG/1/JHB/1/1/A/A8 · Item · 1853
Part of Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh Institutional Archives

William Aitken encloses a specimen of Scalariform tissue from the Torbane Hill coal seam. He has been examining various samples of coals and stratified rocks since he saw Balfour and is now even more certain that the stratified slices of Cannel coal are NOT vegetable matter but are in the structure of the coal. He wishes Balfour success in demolishing Bennett and would enjoy hearing it when it takes place.