孟黛拉的胚，吴弘作的画

石鼓 - 石楚 (常熊三叔 寄)

今寄一张“石鼓”照片给你们，说得正确一点应该是“石楚”不是石鼓，石楚是承负房屋柱子的，这个石楚却是我旧居新兴圩旁小圩子大门外右边当作石鼓用的，对径约60公分，下旁的花纹为“丹凤朝阳”，刻工精细，不是一般民间常见品，真不知是何时，何地，何代帝王宫殿的柱子用的，又不知何人何故而搬移我们的家乡流落到我家，可惜“石不能言，不能像贾宝玉那枚石头，小小的石上还有文字，记述它的经历，所有到过小圩我家的人都与它有过一定的往返，如元生，一平，凯生，肯定在它身上摸过，坐过的，那上一辈或几辈的人就更不用说了，“睹石思人“，我们的祖辈，兄长多少人的手泽在它身上啊！今年清明节4月2日我因病而派了二子怀宁三子吴七，大外孙吕平去庐江柯坦上坟，回来时他们绕道新兴圩，小圩故居，道路已改，屋宇无存，唯这尊石鼓仍然而立，问及遗老，方知为当年小圩大门所在地，石鼓为当年仅存唯一的事物，于是摄影带回，今后怎么办以后再说，我看后，感触很深，放大了挂在了我的坐卧之前，并寄给各地宗亲友好看看，这是吴氏上辈的遗物，我是在这所房子落成后出生在这所房子里的（1922年），于今年88年了，可说后想说的太多，神疲手软，写不下去了，暂就说到这里。


三叔：常熊
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成群结婚的照片 5-1-2009

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Fossil

Andrew,

My name is Schuman with RCD/NFCD. Attached may look like the fossil leave your wife found during the trip to Riyadh, Saudi Arabia we took early this year. Please pass it to her. If possible please send me a photo of the fossil. I will try to put up a Cretaceous paleo-geography story.

Best regards,
Schuman
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Andrew,

Thanks for the photos. Looks great! By the way, the species is called genus Agathis. Its modern day offspring only live in restricted areas in New Zealand and Australia (both formerly belong to Gondwana). Agathis produces lots resin and abundant ambles were found in the formation (offshore wells Saudi Arabia, in Lebanon and Israel etc.). There was an Agathis forest existed in the broad Middle East Region in Mid Cretaceous (maybe was the largest in the world ever existed) and there are evidences indicating offshore oil in Khafji was originated from the Agathis coal.

Best regards,
Schuman

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