Carpenter, William Benjamin, 1813-1885 (naturalist)

Scope and Contents Letter, with envelope, giving the reference, price and outlet for Carpenter's Introduction to the Study of the Foraminifera, details of other works concerning foraminifera, apologies for missing a Geology Society of London meeting due to ill health and a discussion concerning Zoophytes 30 November 1864.

Scope and Contents Letter, thanking Lyell for forwarding some specimens. Descriptions of results in experiments to isolate the Foraminefera Eozoon from these and other specimens. Details of a dispute concerning this with William King and the possible diagrammatic presentation of results at the Geological Society of London when King presents his paper, 09 December 1865.

Scope and Contents Letter, with envelope, concerning the existence of the foraminefera Eozoon and a collaboration with Story-Maskelyne of the British Museum to prove this. 27 December 1865.

Scope and Contents Letter, with envelope, reporting that Carpenter had been showing Rowney thin sections of Canadian Eozoon, a species of foraminefera to prove its existance to him. Asserts that Story-Maskerlyne and Busk are convinced it exists and that King and Rowney had been studying rocks which were too heavily metamorphosed. 09 January 1866.