An Original Handwritten Letter Signed by John Phillips to Levi Leone. Dated 1860. A letter about a gift to the museum and meeting up upon his return from Norwich. John Phillips 1800-1874 was an English geologist. In 1841 he published the first global geologic time scale based on the correlation of fossils in rock strata, thereby helping to standardize terminology including the term Mesozoic, which he invented. Levi Leone, 1821-1888. English jurist and statistician. His chief work, History of British Commerce and of the Economic Progress of the British Nation, 1763-1870, is considered to be a partisan account of British economic development. Size is 110mm x 90mm. Condition is good. Light folding creases.