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Paper, 'Observations on some belemnites, and other fossil remains of cephalopoda, discovered by Sir Reginald Neville Mantell C E in the Oxford Clay near Trowbridge in Wiltshire' by Gideon Algernon Mantell

Reference number: PT/34/10

Date: 01 February 1848

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19 manuscript pages and five plates showing bones from belemnites [extinct squid-like cephalopods].

Subject: Palaeontology

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'Observations on some belemnites and other fossil remains of Cephalopoda, discovered by Mr. Reginald Neville Mantell, C. E. in the Oxford clay near Trowbridge, in Wiltshire'.

Written by Mantell at 19 Chester Square, Pimlico [London]. Received by the Royal Society on 2 March 1848. Read 23 March 1848.

Abstract published in Abstracts of the Papers Printed in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London [later Proceedings of the Royal Society of London], Volume 5, 1851.

Reference number
PT/34/10
Earliest possible date
01 February 1848
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Ink on paper
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24 pages
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Manuscript

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Gideon Algernon Mantell

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Gideon Algernon Mantell, Paper, 'Observations on some belemnites, and other fossil remains of cephalopoda, discovered by Sir Reginald Neville Mantell C E in the Oxford Clay near Trowbridge in Wiltshire' by Gideon Algernon Mantell, 01 February 1848, PT/34/10, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_34_10/paper-observations-on-some-belemnites-and-other-fossil-remains-of-cephalopoda-discovered-by-sir-reginald-neville-mantell-c-e-in-the-oxford-clay-near-trowbridge-in-wiltshire-by-gideon-algernon-mantell, accessed on 21 January 2025

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    Dates: 1802-1865

    The 'Philosophical Transactions' collection comprises manuscript versions of papers published in The Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, the world’s first and longest continuously running journal dedicated to science.

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