From Richard Owen   2 February 1856

R. l College of Surgeons

2 February 1856

My dear Henslow,

I ought, ere this, to have expressed the sympathy which I felt with you on hearing of your loss, and the regret that I should, unconsciously, have intruded on you in that moment.

Your kind answer relative to the Red Crag includes mainly what I was in quest of. I am preparing a Course of Lectures on Fossil Mammalia for the College this Spring.

If your Mammoth’s jaw is entire, with both rami, & the joints perfect, £5 would not be too much.

Every degree of mutilation lowers, almost in a geometrical ratio, the money value. You will see, therefore, that the specimen should be seen, or a sketch sent, to enable me to give a nearer answer.

Believe me | Ever your’s truly | Richard Owen

Please cite as “HENSLOW-428,” in Ɛpsilon: The Correspondence of John Stevens Henslow accessed on 28 March 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/henslow/letters/letters_428