From Adam Sedgwick 1943

My dear Sedgwick

Are you sufficiently recovered from the Queen-ferment to listen to a tale of whales-ears? N.B. I bagged a lot this summer, & clearly detect 3 species. I took them to London last week & have left them with Owen to examine & compare. Deck will show you casts of the best of two species. I did not observe the 3d species til the day before I went to Town, as I was cleaning & repairing them. Of course you will claim the best for the Woodwardian. I have also a few lucubrations about Crag-nodules which will perhaps serve for a short communication some evening at the Geol ^y. I must be in town on Novr. 22d I believe & if that sd be a Geol. night can prepare my strong reasons for asserting them to have all resulted from the disintegration of animal matter - & thence by analogy assert the same of the Green sandstone nodules about Cambridge. Did the Queen relish the Megatherium or the Plesiosaurus most ?

Ever yrs truly

J. S. Henslow