| Description | Murchison correspondence: letter from Mary ANNING, Lyme, Dorset, to Charlotte Murchison, 11 Oct [?1833]. Re: death of Anning's dog [Tray]; lack of success for the past year in fossil hunting, but grateful for the order list of specimens for Charlotte Murchison's friend; agrees that Lord Cole's collection should be arranged properly, has heard that Lady Egerton is very fond of geology; Thomas Hawkin's has set that last Ichthyosaur Platydon as it sat in the cliff, comments that he makes specimens as he imagines rather than how they really are, the specimen in question is too 'large for my poverty' and although broken up it would not take much to make a fine specimen; compliments Roderick Murchison's appearance. |