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From:
Mary Horner Lyell
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
Undated
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society Library The Scientists Collection I 509.L56
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Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
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Has forwarded JSH letter to a Mr Blackie in anticipation of him disproving own theories. Has heard Blackie is about to leave Thomas Coke’s service. Mentions that Cole, in a British Museum MS, has written of Sambucus ebulus growing on the Bartlow Hills.
Gives notes on dimension of two trees planted at his Audley End Estate, a Lebanon cedar and an oak.
Writes concerning the excavation of mammoth remains and plans JSH visit to see them, potentially with Adam Sedgwick but probably not William Whewell. Gives a description of a tusk and other remains in their present state of excavation. States that similar remains in the same stratum of gravel nearby have been destroyed by labourers. Encloses a sketch of the tusk.
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His first letter to JSH since December. Recounts his seasickness, geologising and marine collecting at St Jago [Santiago, Cape Verde Is.]; his first tropical forest. Collecting small insects from the tropics. His Welsh trip with Sedgwick has been extremely valuable.
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Specimens being sent off. Describes his collection of rocks, plants, and insects. Some particularly interesting specimens.
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A French collector [Alcide d’Orbigny] has been at the Rio Negro and will probably have "taken the cream". CD’s luck with fossil bones, among them a large extinct armadillo-like animal. Describes some birds, toads, Crustacea, and other marine specimens. Nearly all plants flowering at Bahia Blanca were collected. Is sending two large casks of fossil bones by packet.
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