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Image number: RS.8734
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Fossil teeth and bones of water-rat, mouse, rabbit, raven, lark, pigeon and duck
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1822
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height (painting): 295mm
width (painting): 264mm
width (painting): 264mm
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Plate 25 figures 1-29 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. Twenty-nine figures of assorted fossil bones and teeth found at Kirkdale Cave, Yorkshire; on individual sheets pasted together and a single backing sheet. The work is inscribed with publication and plate details and various notes of instruction on printing. Inscribed upper right "M.Morland & T.Webster del". Royal Society stamp verso.
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An illustration produced for publication in the journal Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society.
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