Letter to Lewis Reeves Gibbes from Edmund Ravenel
January 8, 1857
Courtesy of South Caroliniana Library, University of South Carolina, Columbia, S.C.
Dear Doctor
It was quite a relief to us to receive your letter by the return of our small boat, the day became so very cold after you had gone that we were very uneasy about you. That day & the next were the coldest I have ever noticed here. The Duck Pond was so frozen that Edmund and Prioleau walked upon it, it is the first time that I have ever known the ice there, strong enough to bear.
I am very much obliged to you for the shells sent & your remarks of others. I had forgotten the B. lunatum, as soon as I saw your specimens I recollected the shell & soon found it in my cabinet. I sent it with others to Mr. Say a “long time ago”. The B. lunatum Post Pl. sent to me by someone from Stono is a very different shell. I have found it in the Wando P.P. with two other species of about the same sizewith two minute species of Natica, very different from any I have seen before. I hope to be able to give you a good account of our Wando deposit when I have the pleasure of being with you again.
Yours very truly
Edmund Ravenel
from 8th January 1852 Dr. L. R. Gibbes
Letter to Lewis Reeves Gibbes from Edmund Ravenel
January 15, 1857
Courtesy of South Caroliniana Library, University of South Carolina, Columbia, S.C.
Dear Doctor,
I received yesterday the specimens of Nickel & Cobalt – I will be glad to have a specimen of your Pinus Rigida. You now have the six kinds known in the Low Country.
The Berries of the Smilax are not as good now as they were when you were here, but I will get them for you, to be sent by my vessel – with vine, leaf & root.
I send you some Lunulites – put them under the microscope & see if there is more than the single species – my glasses are not strong enough.
I will be obliged to you to send me a specimen of Say’s Nassa Acuta, either recent or P. Pliocene
one of Natica pusilla “ “
one of Stimpsons Eulimia “ “
If you have the number of the journal in which Stimpsons description & figure are, send it to me by Mr. R. & I will return it with the shells very soon – if you have not the specimens, borrow them from Holmes for me.
Ask Mr. Holmes if he has made any additions to the list of Post Pl. shells, as published by Mr. Tuomey in his “Report” – & if so, to give me the names. I will probably add a few more one of these days.
Letter to Lewis Reeves Gibbes from Edmund Ravenel
January 15, 1857
Courtesy of South Caroliniana Library, University of South Carolina, Columbia, S.C.
Yours with much regard, Edmund Ravenel
Grove St. Thomas 15 January 1857.