Credit: © The Royal Society
Image number: RS.9581
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Armoured fish ['Placodermi']
Date
19th century
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Dimensions
height (print): 177mm
width (print): 253mm
width (print): 253mm
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Description
Sketches of two types of extinct armoured fossil fish from the class Placodermi, active from the Silurian to Devonian periods. Side views of one whole fish and one head study, as if in life.
Found loosely inserted in Recherches sur les poisons fosssiles...tome 1, by Louis Agassiz (Neuchatel, 1833-1843), pp.36-37. Agassiz’s work was the first significant survey of fossil ichthyology and these rough sketches were probably made by someone using the book later in the 19th century.
Louis Agassiz (1807-1873), Swiss-born American biologist and geologist, was elected a Foreign Member of the Royal Society in 1838. He wrote prolifically on polygenism and was a proponent of scientific racism.
Found loosely inserted in Recherches sur les poisons fosssiles...tome 1, by Louis Agassiz (Neuchatel, 1833-1843), pp.36-37. Agassiz’s work was the first significant survey of fossil ichthyology and these rough sketches were probably made by someone using the book later in the 19th century.
Louis Agassiz (1807-1873), Swiss-born American biologist and geologist, was elected a Foreign Member of the Royal Society in 1838. He wrote prolifically on polygenism and was a proponent of scientific racism.
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