To Adam Sedgwick 5 December 1841

H.B.S

5 Decr 1841

My dear Sedgwick

I must continue to screw [?] out 3 Guineas for the Long-necked, but my own wonderful collections require all I can appropriate to such purposes. Did you ever receive some fresh specimens of the Suffolk Pantocene which I left with Crouch in the Summer? The fossils if you can recollect were of a Quadruped - but the materials it should seem are the traces of some Biped - not far removed from the monkey tribe. I am going to London tomorrow to give the Agarics (sic) a lecture on Wednesday - Daubeny on Thursday. They are determined on considering Oxford & Cambridge the seats of Plough Oracles. Mrs H. has come back in high spirits at her visit. I am longing for the opportunity of congratulating Whewell. Yr friend Mr Sidney sent a few days ago to borrow some drawings from me. He intends giving his neighbours a lecture on Diseases in Wheat.

Ever yrs sincerely

J. S. Henslow

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