Secondary fossil shells, South America
Date
1844
Creator
George Brettingham Sowerby (1812 - 1884, British ) , II, Printmaker
Object type
Library reference
35336
Material
Technique
Dimensions
width (print): 266mm
height (print): 192mm
height (print): 192mm
Subject
Content object
Description
24 specimens of secondary fossil shells from South America.
Inscribed ‘1a-1b. Nautilus d’Orbignyanus 2. Ancyloceras simplex 3. Baculites vagina 4,5,6. Perna Americana 7. Gryphœa Darwinii 8-9. Gryphœa nov. spec. 10,11, 12. Terebratula œnigma 13, 14 var. of do. 15,16 Spirifer Chilensis 17,18. Spirifer linguiferoides 19-20. Terebratula inca 21. Lucina excentrica 22,23. Astarte Darwinii 24. Lucina Americana. G.B. Sowerby Junr.’
Plate to Descriptions of secondary fossil shells from South America by Professor E. Forbes from Geological observations on the volcanic islands and parts of South America visited during the voyage of H.M.S 'Beagle' by Charles Darwin, 1846.
Charles Robert Darwin (1809–1882), British naturalist, geologist, and originator of the theory of natural selection, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1839.
George Brettingham Sowerby II (1812-1884) was a British naturalist, illustrator and conchologist.
Edward Forbes (1815-1854), naturalist and palaeontologist, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1845.
Inscribed ‘1a-1b. Nautilus d’Orbignyanus 2. Ancyloceras simplex 3. Baculites vagina 4,5,6. Perna Americana 7. Gryphœa Darwinii 8-9. Gryphœa nov. spec. 10,11, 12. Terebratula œnigma 13, 14 var. of do. 15,16 Spirifer Chilensis 17,18. Spirifer linguiferoides 19-20. Terebratula inca 21. Lucina excentrica 22,23. Astarte Darwinii 24. Lucina Americana. G.B. Sowerby Junr.’
Plate to Descriptions of secondary fossil shells from South America by Professor E. Forbes from Geological observations on the volcanic islands and parts of South America visited during the voyage of H.M.S 'Beagle' by Charles Darwin, 1846.
Charles Robert Darwin (1809–1882), British naturalist, geologist, and originator of the theory of natural selection, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1839.
George Brettingham Sowerby II (1812-1884) was a British naturalist, illustrator and conchologist.
Edward Forbes (1815-1854), naturalist and palaeontologist, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1845.
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