OWEN
(Sir Richard, 1804-1892, anatomist and zoologist, creator of the Natural History Museum at South Kensington and inventor of the name 'Dinosaur')
Long Scientific Autograph Letter Signed to an unnamed correspondent
telling him that he has "had the good fortune to find here, collected in one house - filling more than one room, the choicest prints of the research during many years for fossils from the Pill and Gravel beds of this part of Essex and the neighbouring coast. Among the Rhinoceros remains, a beautiful calvarium with part of the bony wall of the nose giving the character of Tichorrhine, Hippopotamus, Irish Elk so called, two good species of Bas, the small short-horned, also occurring in under-bog gravel in Ireland, and the gigantic Urus, one core is 20 inches circumference at the base: Goat, but , most abundantly the Mammoth. Teeth of all ages, some of them very singularly exemplifying the power of the crushing forces to which the Pill has been subject. One great strong molar ... split vertically, another is crushed and squeezed, so that all the plates are pounded together in a conglomerate with the bits of cracked enamel sticking out just like the glass fragments from the plaster on the top of a garden wall, so defended. Ichthyosaurus, Plesiosaurus with Gryphaea incurva & other ... fossils have also been gathered from the Pill at Walton, washed, somehow, out of ... neighbouring ... I suspect that some Rhinoceros-like teeth are of Acerotherium, but a comparison with Dr Kamp's figures when get home will determine this. The whole presents a strange picture of the Mammalian population of the antiglacial period. The singularly fractured state of both bones & teeth, without any water-wearing, clearly indicates the operation of solids in producing this effect ..." with a postscript that "A few marine shells are mixed with the fresh-water shells of the Pill ...", 4 sides 8vo., near Colchester, 14th October
Item Date:
1842
Stock No:
39777
£975
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PAGET
(Sir James, 1814-1899, Surgeon)
Signature and inscription from the end of Autograph Letter Signed,
traces of mounting at corners
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0
Stock No:
26752
£15
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PAGET
(Sir James, 1814-1899, Surgeon, surgeon extraordinary to Queen Victoria)
Autograph Letter Signed to 'My dear Hollhouse'
regretting that he "cannot be at your Garden Party - I have promised to go to Godston where all my family are, and to spend with them the 31st & some following days ...",1 side 8vo., 1 Harewood Place, Hanover Square, 24th July
Item Date:
1875
Stock No:
41675
£65
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PAGET
(Sir James, 1814-1899, Surgeon, surgeon extraordinary to Queen Victoria)
Autograph Letter Signed to J. J. Atwood
saying he is “heartily obliged to you for the great supply of good fare that you have been so kind as to send me. Your son, I hope is still going on well. I hope, too, thath e may completely recover his health, but the necessity of working & exposing himself to weather, during the severest part of his illness, not only much retarded his recover, but made me fear that his health would sustain permanent damage...”, 2 sides 8vo., 24 Henrietta Street, Cavendish Square, 7th January
Item Date:
1855
Stock No:
42507
£125
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PAGET
(Sir James, 1814-1899, Surgeon, Organiser of the modern Medical School at St. Bartholomew's Hospital)
Autograph Note in the 3rd Person
to Mr Charles Hall, saying that "he will call on him this afternoon about 6", top half of 1 side 8vo. but complete, 1 Harewood Place, Hanover Square, London, W., 16th December
Item Date:
1874
Stock No:
56146
£75
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