Lot 255
Autograph letters signed, mostly to Professor Ansted, Professor of Geology
Printed Books, Maps and Manuscripts
Auction: 11 July 2006 at 12:00 BST
Description
Edward, Duke of Kent, 5 July 1805, Sir James Graham, 5 Feb. 1857, Lord Brougham, 8 Oct. 1850, Sir F. Freeling, [1818], Sir John Sinclair 1st Bart. discussing currency and 'Small Notes', 29 Feb. 1832, Sir Patrick Colquhoun, 25 Feb. 1863, Lord Grenvill Somerset, 29 Jan. 1870, Duchess of Hamilton to Viscountess of How at Langer expressing condolences, 12 Feb. 1712, Charles Landseer, R.A., [n.d.], Charles Barry, E. Backman R.A., H.W.B. Davies R.A. (3 letters), Sir Charles James Fox on 'fossils from Malaga which are at present on the the table of the Geological Society.. great resemblence to the Equisetites columnaris, 3pp, 25 June1827, John Palgrave Simpson, 30 June 1866, John Maddison Morton [n.d.], Elie Wartmann, physicist, 29 Oct. 1846, Charles Keen, 4 Sept. 1862, Thomas Donaldson, 19 Feb. 1877, Sir George Johnson, 28 Cot. 1880, Warrington W. Smyth referring to Professor Ansted's geological writings, 30 Oct. 1880, two letters from Sir Richard Owen to Miss Payser, 1 May & 12 Aug., 1854, Hugh Falconer, botanist and geologist, on Geological Society headed paper, discussing the right upper jaw of a rhinoceros, 8 June 1857, W. Pole, Lord Polton, W. Thornhill Harrison, geologist, F.C. Penrose, Charles Naumann, Dr. M Hoernnes, Count Marshall, Dr. Professor J. Szabo, Adolphe Brongniart, and many others, including a clipped signature of King George III, late 19th century maroon morocco, rubbed
Footnote
Footnote: The majority of the letters are to Professor David Thomas Ansted, Professor of Geology at King's College, London, and at the College of Civil Engineers, at Putney, from 1845 and Assistant Secretary to the Geological Society in London 1844-47. They include a number of replies from foreign geologists, many responding to a request from the Geological Society in London for photographs of geologists who are foreign members or correspondents.