Faraday to John Edward Gray   17 October 18501

R Institution | 17 Octr. 1850

My dear Sir

Could you tell me in three words whether Perry’s2 Conchology 18113 is a good & standard work & whether it is cheap at 1.15.0[.] It is offered to us at that price ought I to authorize that expenditure for it?4

Ever Yours | M. Faraday

Gray Esq | &c &c &c

1
John Edward Gray (1800-1875, DNB). Keeper of the Zoological Department of the British Museum, 1840-1874.
2
George Perry. Otherwise unidentified.
3
Perry (1811).
4
There is a copy of this in the Library of the Royal Institution.

Bibliography

PERRY, George (1811): Conchology, or the natural history of shells: containing a new arrangement of the genera and species, London.

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