| Description | Murchison correspondence: letter from Lady Eliza Maria GORDON-CUMMING, Altyre House, Forres, Scotland, 14 Apr 1842. Re: has despatched some drawings of the fossil fishes for his inspection but requests that they should not be copied as the previous ones were left in the care of William Lonsdale but carried off by Louis Agassiz, is considering bringing out a work on fossil fishes herself which will be distinct from Agassiz's and hopes that Murchison might add them to the end of 'Silurian System', has excavated more new examples of Pterichthys and Coccosteus, asks Murchison's advice about the arrangement of the fins of Pterichthys, her excavations around the area in the Old Red. The letter is in the hand of Gordon-Cumming's daughter, Lady Seymour Gordon-Cumming, due to her mother's ill-health, with a note at the end describing a further 'ichthyolite'. |
| Administrative History | Lady Eliza Gordon-Cumming collected fossils from 1839-1842, mostly from the Lethen Bar quarry. |