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Hi All,

See below for call for info........

Hope everyone is well,

Jan

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I am a member of the British Teilhard Society.This year's Annual Conference is concentrating on Teilhard's time at Hastings 1908-11, coupled with a visit to Hastings on 19 April and a lecture on the Teilhard Collection of fossils which is coming out of store. To help my colleague (a local expert on Hastings fossils) who will be delivering this lecture could you please tell me:

• Do you know whether Teilhard's collection of fossils held by the Hastings Museum (currently in store) has been listed, classified or written about academically? It is not apparently documented at the museum, and has only come out in its entirety twice in 20 years. Apparently, the fossils are still wrapped in Jesuit seminary exam papers!
• I believe Teilhard donated some fossils to the British Natural History Museum collected while in England. Again do you have listings or any articles you could refer me to please?
• I also understand Teilhard donated fossils elsewhere to Cambridge (?) so again do you have any listings/sources of articles.

Any help on the above would be gratefully received As you may know, Teilhard went on to do a lot of palaeontology in China. However, it is really the Hastings years will are of interest for our purpose in this Centenary year of Teilhard's arrival in England.

My own interest in Teilhard is from the direction of ecotheology and because of my family links with Hastings . I am rather out of my field in palaeontology so .....

Thank-you for your help.

Stephen Retout, 6 Lime Walk, Littleover, Derby DE23 6BD
07745 185124 01332 773117
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Jan Freedman
Assistant Keeper of Natural History
Plymouth City Museum and Art Gallery
Drake Circus
Plymouth
PL4 8AJ
Tel: 01752 30 4774
W: www.plymouthmuseum.gov.uk

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