Autograph Letter Signed, to “My dear Lewis”, hoping by now “to have had your supposed icthyodorlite to hand”, asking for it to be sent to Murchison, for microscopic examination, referring to a paper received about fish species. “...to be read with one of Stricklands on the 17th.”2 pp. 7 x 4 inches, fine.16 Belgrave Square, 4 November 1852.
Sir Roderick Impey Murchison (1792-1871), Scottish geologist, author of The Silurian System (1839).