MEMOIK OF THE LATE JOHN' SCALES. 
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[undated] 
My i)eau Siu 
I duly received yours ot the 28th ult. The business 
of publication at the latter end of the month has prevented my answering it 
sooner. 1 however take the first opportunity of doing so. 
My Father says he feels highly pleased that you think on him when any- 
thing turns out in his way, and anticipates the pleasure of having some- 
thing to keep for your sake in his museum, lie is particularly anxious 
about fossils and petrifactions found in Clay and does not mind expence of 
carriage, so never stand for that, but send him the horn or tooth and also 
some variety of the oyster shells and whelks, and any other shells that may 
be found, also some specimens of the red earth and specimens of the earths 
found above and below and that in which the horn is found. Some he has 
lately got from the digging of the Tunnel where there has been found a 
fossil rezin, very curious, lie begs his best remembrances and is thankful 
for your kind invitation and will be happy to see you & any of your family 
in London. 
I would write to you more fully, but business prevents & I intend to send 
you a long letter, either before or on the receipt of this very curious fossil 
horn. 
In the meantime believe me 
[No address no post mark.] 
My dear Friend 
Most truly yours 
G. B. SoWEBBt. 
[Though this letter is undated I do not hesitate to place it before the next, 
since the “ horn or tooth ” of the one seems to be the “ bone ” of the other. 
Tho Tunnel mentioned is probably that which was attempted to be made 
under the Thames in 1804 and the following years. Brunei’s Tuijnel 
(now existing) was not begun till 1825.] 
My deae Sib 
I am very grateful for your sending me the bone, 
which may be possibly one of the spinal bones of the neck vertebrse of the 
JIammoth. I should think must or may have been found with other 
remains. Pray let me bribe the men to take care of everything, shells &c 
that they may find — one penny for a shell — twopence for a tooth and in 
proportion for a bone, horn, &c. will probably prevent them throwing them 
away, and if they should find anything I would beg warehouse room till you 
shall find it convenient to send. 
One of the specimens was almost pure but gritt}' micaceous brown ochre 
like the Roman ochre of Painters. The other was a mixture of clayey loam 
and soil. 
I am glad to find all well and shall perhaps witness it in a call, if not 
