Gideon Algernon Mantell to Faraday   c December 18471

My dear Professor Faraday,

Do call & see my new treasures from my son2 in New Zealand. Such magnificent examples of the bones of colorful birds as were never before obtained: and an arm-bone of a lizard from my old charmed house Tilgate Forest only 4 1/2 feet long.

I shall be at home on Saturday till two.

Ever yours with the | highest respect & regards | G.A. Mantell

19 Chester | Square | Friday.

1
Dated on the basis that Mantell received the bones mentioned in the letter in December 1847. See Curwen (1940), 218.
2
Walter Baldock Durrant Mantell (1820-1895, DNZB). Civil servant in New Zealand.

Bibliography

CURWEN, E. Cecil (1940): The Journal of Gideon Mantell Surgeon and Geologist, London.

Please cite as “Faraday2030,” in Ɛpsilon: The Michael Faraday Collection accessed on 27 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/faraday/letters/Faraday2030