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, surgeon extraordinary to Queen Victoria)
Autograph Letter Signed to Dr. ALLCHIN
(William Henry, 1846–1912, Physician and lecturer on comparative anatomy, physiology, pathology and medicine at Westminster Hospital) thanking him for an invitation and saying the the time "will be quite convenient to me ...", 1 side 8vo, 1 Harewood Place, Hanover Square, 8th May
Item Date:
1874
Stock No:
39202
£65
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PAGET
(Sir James, 1814-1899, Surgeon, surgeon extraordinary to Queen Victoria)
Autograph Letter Signed to Dr. ALLCHIN
(William Henry, 1846–1912, Physician and lecturer on comparative anatomy, physiology, pathology and medicine at Westminster Hospital) thanking him for "giving me your excellent paper on 'Functional Diseases' and for supplying me with so clear reasons for the belief which I ventured to express at the Pathological Society when speaking on that & some similar subjecte …", 1 side 8vo., 1 Harewood Place, Hanover Square, 4th February
Item Date:
1887
Stock No:
39203
£175
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PAGET
(Sir George Edward, 1809-1892, Physician & Professor at Cambridge)
Autograph Letter Signed to Dr GOODHART
(Sir James Frederic, 1845-1916, Physician at Guy's Hospital) regretting that "I shall be unable to attend on Tuesday Feb 3 the meeting of the Pitman Portrait Committee as I have an engagement here the same afternoon. I shall feel obliged by your directing the list of subscriptions to be sent to me ...", 2 sides 8vo., Cambridge, 27th January
Item Date:
1885
Stock No:
39200
£35
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PAGET
(Sir James, 1814-1899, Surgeon, surgeon extraordinary to Queen Victoria)
Autograph Letter Signed to Dr. ALLCHIN
(William Henry, 1846–1912, Physician and lecturer on comparative anatomy, physiology, pathology and medicine at Westminster Hospital) saying he is "much obliged to you for your paper on Vital Diagnosis and am glad that you so strongly maintain the utility of the custom which some French Writer described by saying that the French Physicians study the disease, English study the patien …"
1 side 8vo., 1 Harewood Place, Hanover Square, 11th February
Item Date:
1889
Stock No:
39204
£175
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