From Richard Owen   26 January 1857

Sheen Lodge | Mortlake

26 January 1857

My dear Sir,

M. rs Owen desires me to thank you for your kind offer of a small basket of Dorking eggs; which, if sent in April or the beginning of May, would most probably come in time for one of our sitting-hens, and at a season when chickens are best reared.

I have lately received from Harwich a nodule of the London-clay containing a new fossil, allied to the Coryphodon, which you first made me acquainted with. Hoping to meet you at the Anniversary of the Geological Society on the 19. th February, if not sooner, and with our best regards,

I remain, | My dear Sir, | your’s always truly, | Richard Owen.

Please cite as “HENSLOW-469,” in Ɛpsilon: The Correspondence of John Stevens Henslow accessed on 28 March 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/henslow/letters/letters_469