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From:
George Johnston
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
12 October 1832
Source of text:
Christ's College Library, Cambridge Tracts 0.12.12
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Henslow Correspondence Project
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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.