Abstract
A case of multiple serendipity has allowed the fate of the Davies collection to be partly uncovered. On a recent visit to a mining historian friend David E. Bick, Pound House, Market Square, NEWENT, Glos; he told me, when Davies name was mentioned, that he had just purchased about 80 letters written by Davies and his eldest son G. Christopher Davies who was a lawyer in Norwich to William Whitwell, F.G.S. from circa 1865 to circa 1890. In one of these from Christopher Davies dates January 24 1887 is the following paragraph. "My father's fossils were not sold at the sale [this must refer to a house sale after...
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