Down, | Beckenham, Kent. | (Railway Station | Orpington. S.E.R.)
Oct 22d 1880
Dear Sir
I am much obliged to you & to Prof. Schaafhausen for the photographs, which are very interesting.—1 You were indeed fortunate to find such fine foot-marks, which seem to me excellently engraved.2
Thomas had discovered fossil footprints in the Triassic rocks of Glamorgan, Wales; his article in the Transactions of the Cardiff Naturalists’ Society describing the discovery contained two lithograph plates reproduced from drawings he had made (Thomas 1879). The discovery was also communicated to the Geological Society of London in early 1879 together with a lithograph of one of Thomas’s drawings (Sollas 1879). See plate on p. 349.