Reptiles of the Carboniferous
Date
1863
Creator
J Walker (Canadian) , Engraver
Object type
Library reference
Tracts 442/2/1
Material
Technique
Dimensions
height (print): 209mm
width (print): 128mm
width (print): 128mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Imaginary reconstruction of a Carboniferous period landscape with plants, fish, insects with amphibians, reptiles and tetrapods.
Frontispiece plate from the monograph Air-breathers of the coal period…of Nova Scotia by J W Dawson (Dawson Brothers, Montreal, 1863).
The illustration is inscribed above: ‘AIR-BREATHERS OF THE COAL PERIOD.’ And below: ‘RESTORATIONS OF BAPHETES, DENDRERPETON, HYLONOMUS, AND HYLERPETON.’ The engraver’s name, ‘J.WALKER’ appears lower right within the illustration.
Sir John William Dawson (1820-1899) Canadian geologist was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1862.
Frontispiece plate from the monograph Air-breathers of the coal period…of Nova Scotia by J W Dawson (Dawson Brothers, Montreal, 1863).
The illustration is inscribed above: ‘AIR-BREATHERS OF THE COAL PERIOD.’ And below: ‘RESTORATIONS OF BAPHETES, DENDRERPETON, HYLONOMUS, AND HYLERPETON.’ The engraver’s name, ‘J.WALKER’ appears lower right within the illustration.
Sir John William Dawson (1820-1899) Canadian geologist was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1862.
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