Faraday to Gideon Algernon Mantell   22 March 18521

R Institution | 22 Mar 1852

My dear Mantell

I am ever your debtor. Many thanks on the present occasion for the Notornis2. When shall you have your own bird home I mean he who sends you all these most interesting things?3 He must be a source of great pleasure & pride to you[.]

Ever Yours | M. Faraday

1
Gideon Algernon Mantell (1790-1852, DSB). Geologist.
2
A bird from New Zealand. See Mantell (1850) on this. A drawing had been displayed at Mantell (1852), Friday Evening Discourse of 5 March 1852, p.146.
3
That is Walter Baldock Durrant Mantell (1820-1895, DNZB). Civil servant in New Zealand.

Bibliography

MANTELL, Gideon Algernon (1850): “Notice of the discovery by Mr. Walter Mantell in the Middle Island of New Zealand, of a living specimen of the Notornis, a bird of the Rail family, allied to the Brachypteryx, and hitherto unknown to naturalists except in a fossil state”, Proc. Zoo. Soc., 18: 209-12.

MANTELL, Gideon Algernon (1852): “On the Structure of the Iguanodon, and on the Fauna and Flora of the Wealden Formation”, Proc. Roy. Inst., 1: 141-6.

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