TALBOT9523

Sunday April 4^th/69

My dear Father

If you could make it convenient, I should be much obliged if you would bring me my “Stone’s Justice of the Peace Manual”. ¹ I am not sure of the exact wording of the title. It is I believe on the table in the library. ² If it is difficult to find, never mind it.

I went not long ago to the Polytechnic ³ to see a very big induction coil on Rhumkorff’s [sic] principle, ⁴ made by Apps of the Strand.⁵ They show some very fine experiments with it. –

I wrote you a letter yesterday. – Yesterday I was in the Museum of practical geology ⁶ in Jermyn S^t and found a specimen named Pholas Constricta, which appears to be exactly the same as a fossil that I found in a heap of road material in Corsham road.⁷ – I do not know what quarry it came from but it struck me as a very odd looking thing. – I saw that the object was imbedded in fossilized wood – It must therefore be a boring animal, but it does not look like a shell at all.

Your affect son
Charles

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H Fox Talbot Esq
Lacock Abbey
Chippenham