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Paper, 'On the structure of the jaws and teeth of the iguanodon' by Gideon Algernon Mantell

Reference number: PT/34/11

Date: 24 May 1848

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Subject: Palaeontology

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'On the structure of the jaws and teeth of the iguanodon'.

Written by Mantell at 19 Chester Square, Pimlico [London]. Received and read by the Royal Society on 25 May 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.

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PT/34/11
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24 May 1848
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43 pages
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Manuscript

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Gideon Algernon Mantell, Paper, 'On the structure of the jaws and teeth of the iguanodon' by Gideon Algernon Mantell, 24 May 1848, PT/34/11, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_34_11/paper-on-the-structure-of-the-jaws-and-teeth-of-the-iguanodon-by-gideon-algernon-mantell, accessed on 15 January 2025

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