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    Image number: RS.8732
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    Fossil deer teeth and antlers

    Date
    1822
    Creator
    Object type
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    Material
    Dimensions
    height (painting): 270mm
    width (painting): 283mm
    Subject
    Biology
       > Anatomy
    Biology
       > Zoology
    Earth Sciences
       > Palaeontology
          > Fossils
    Content object
    nature
       > animal
    Description
    Plate 23 from the paper "Account of an assemblage of fossil teeth and bones of elephant, rhinoceros, hippopotamus, bear, tiger, and hyaena, and sixteen other animals; discovered in a cave at Kirkdale, Yorkshire, in the year 1821: with a comparative view of five similar caverns in various parts of England, and others on the Continent.", by William Buckland, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol.112 (1822), pp.171-236. Five figures of fossil teeth and antler fragments, one identified by Buckland as a large red deer, discovered at Kirkdale Cave, Yorkshire. Figures 3-4 are on a single original sheet, upon which figures 1, 2 and 5 have been pasted. The original sheet bears the pasted-over inscription "Frances Duncombe delt. Feby. 14th 1822" with notes on specimen sizes. Figure 5 is also signed "Frances Duncombe del." The work is inscribed with publication and plate details. Royal Society stamp verso. Watermarked "1816".
    Object history
    An illustration produced for publication in the journal Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society.
    Associated place
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          > United Kingdom
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