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    Image number: RS.8599
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    Fossil hippopotamus grinding teeth

    Date
    1813
    Object type
    Archive reference number
    Material
    Dimensions
    height (painting): 310mm
    width (painting): 232mm
    Subject
    Biology
       > Anatomy
    Biology
       > Zoology
    Earth Sciences
       > Palaeontology
          > Fossils
    Description
    Plate 9, from the paper "An account of some organic remains found near Brentford, Middlesex", by William Kirby Trimmer, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol.103 (1813), pp.131-137. Three figures, identified by Trimmer as hippopotamus grinding teeth in his published plate notes. The work is inscribed above with publication and plate details. Not signed. Royal Society stamp verso.
    Object history
    An illustration produced for publication in the journal Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society.
    Associated place
    <The World>
       > Europe
          > United Kingdom
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