Athenæum <1>
Saturday 29 July
My Dear Charles
I will examine the terms of the agreement as soon as I get home.
I am afraid that if you go touring about and examining buildings in course of construction you will in all cases have to make friends with the Clerk of the Works <2> or in other words to make him a present. The weather today is Exceedingly hot, I have been in the B. Museum and examined for the first time the Celebrated Archæopteryx macrurus from Solenhofen <3> – Now that I have seen it, I must read Owens paper <4> in the Philosl Transns <5> for 1863.
I walked thro’ the Kings Library. I was delighted by the map of Cambridge in 1574 <6> of which no other copy exists – Trinity College <7> is called Trinity Ostel, St Sepulchre’s Church is called St Pulcher’s Gonville & Caius Coll. is called Gunwell. Kings College chapel was then just as it is now. The lane between Trinity & Caius was called Findsilver lane (there must have been some remarkable instance of treasure-trove there) – It is moreover a very neat and pretty map –
Your affte
Father
Notes:
1. The Athenæum and (London) Literary Chronicle, London.
2. See Doc. No: 09005.
3. Discovered by Christian Erich Hermann von Meyer (1801–1869), in the Solenhofen lithographic slate quarries, Barvaria, in 1861.
4. Sir Richard Owen (1804–1892), appointed as the first Superintendant of the Natural History Departments of the British Museum, 1856, and was subsequently made Director when the Museum moved its premises to South Kensington. Sir Richard Owen ‘On the Archaeoptryx, Meyer, with a description of the fossil remains of the longtail species, from the Lithographic Stone of Solenhofen’, Philosophical Transactions, 1863, pp. 33–47.
5. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London.
6. The first printed map of Cambridge, drawn and engraved by Richard Lyne ( fl.1570–1600), painter and engraver, for Dr John Caius’s (1510–1573) History of the University, compiled in 1572. Two copies of the map are now known to be in existance, the second being discovered in 1894.
7. Trinity College, Cambridge.