TALBOT9868

Lacock Abbey
March April 17. 1872

My dear Father

I enclose a post card that arrived for you & I forward something to Madame Petit. ¹

I have just returned from the meeting of the Council of the Archaeological Society at Devizes. We are to have another on Tuesday next, so tell Rosamond ² that I shall be engaged on that day, but I hope the Weston business may be made out before that.

I took one of the vertebrae found at Nethermore ³ to Devizes & showed it to M^r Cunnington. ⁴ He pronounces it to be Pleiosauros [sic]. He cannot understand its being found in Lower Green-Sand, but should have supposed it had been from Kimmeridge Clay. ⁵ The field when it was found is lower than the plantation; perhaps we shall find it to be just below the Green Sand. He also remarks as unusual its exf extreme lightness, the fossil being usually very heavy. I think under the circumstances we had better try for the remainder. You see M^r Awdry’s ⁶ guess of Mammoth was very wide of the mark.

In haste Your affect son
Charles H Talbot

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