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[printed: Geological-Palaeontological Institute of the Technical University Berlin-Charlottenburg Director: Prof. Dr. phil. Dr.-Ing. H. Quiring]
[printed: Berlin-Charlottenburg 2, 3 January 1955 Hardenbergstraße 34 Telephone: 34 31 81, ext. 296]
To Professor Dr. C.F.A.SCHAEFFER Collège de France The Castel Lane 14, Fargot Street St.Germain-en-Laye
Handwritten: Paris
Dear Mr SCHAEFFER!
Regarding the transfer of the thin sections of the Pelmiken amber works (East Prussia) to the Russians, analysis and determination of amber possibilities are meanwhile under way. I recommended to you that thin sections...
The page as scanned is largely faint; the body text is partially illegible and is transcribed as best readable:
Probably of Dernstein can be emer right. Also in Berlin there are only slight possibilities. I ran recommended to you, etch so the last thin sections. The amber from Enkomi ... Professor of Mineralogy at the University of Königsberg, Dr. K. SCHUBERT, retired, Director of the Amber Research Institute in your Ecker... (Hans) to turn to. He is far the only one who can give you information to examine the amber of Ugarit. Possibly work on the works for the Johannes deposit...
Further note: I have in the "Untersuchung" on further interpretation of the "Trauma" of the DRESDNER(?) I have published amber work in "Kant-Studien" (Vol. 45, Issue 2, 1953-55, pages 139-156) a detailed interpretation...
With kind regards Yours very devotedly
Handwritten: signature
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