| Description | Since he wrote last, he has been hard at work on the Bunter pebbles and he has observed more fossils. He has completed his first undertaking, the district from Harbourne to Lichfield. He will commence next at Stafford, working towards Stourport. He spent his holiday at Sutton to work out the district. He has expended 15s. 9d. of the £4 that Bonney forwarded and he encloses an account [attached]. He has handed over rocks to Thomas Waller, who is making sections. He asks Bonney where the Ordovician rocks occur in Scotland and a good locality for seeing Old Red Conglomorate. He asks if he is correct in stating that the local Drift was transported from the Bunter by aid of water, since he has not found any scratched pebbles, but local geoogists insist on calling it a glacial drift.
T.G. Bonney was awarded a grant of £10 from the Royal Society's Donation Fund, in November 1886, 'to enable him to assist Mr. A.T. Evans in his researches'. |