From Joseph Prestwich   18 May 1855

My dear Sir,

Your list certainly puzzles me— you give good Crag species & yet I can hardly imagine the reality of so curious a fact. It is most important to have it well determined. I should recommend you to send the best preserved specimens to M. ^r Searles Wood & ask his opinion with respect to them. I quite long to go to the section at Chislet but at present I cannot leave the sofa—

Pray let me hear from you when you have M. ^r Wood’s or M. ^r Sowerby’s opinion—

Yours very sincerely | J. Prestwich J. ^r