807 - CARPENTER, William Benjamin (1813-1885), naturaliste anglais. Lettre autographe signée. Londres, 21 novembre 1847. 4 pp. petit in-8.

CARPENTER, William Benjamin (1813-1885), naturaliste anglais. Lettre autographe signée. Londres, 21 novembre 1847. 4 pp. petit in-8. Très intéressante lettre sur ses recherches et publications illustrées relatives aux coquillages : « […] I have the pleasure of sending you the plates and proofs of my second report which you were good enough to wish to see together with a complete copy of my first report, published in the transaction of the British Association for 1844. I have marked on them please Plates not merly the name of each subject, but the paragraphs of the text in which the description of it is to be found. In one or two instances, the figure and description do not quite accordording to the artist not having exactly represented the subject, or the lithographie process not having done justice to the drawing. This is especially the case with with fig. 47. I shall send you a complete copy of this second report, which it's all that I shall at present publish on the subject as soon as it is out of the press ; and I hope, at no distance period, to be able to send you an abstract that may be adapted for insertion in the "Annales", according to wish you were good enough to express. I am very sorry that I have no better series of objects to send you than those I enclose ; but having given away several hundreds (I might almost say thousand) of duplicates, I have but few left. I should have been particularly glad to send you some specimen of my selection of the [?] shell, but have none by me that would be worthy of your acceptance. As soon as I can find time to make some more, I will let you have them […] ». Carpenter se dit flatté que son correspondant admire ses recherches et lui demande la faveur de formuler cette estime officiellement pour aider à sa reconnaissance.