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Refers to Bovey Tracey in Devon. 86 manuscript pages and 27 plates showing various botanical fossil specimens.

Subject: Palaeontology

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'On the fossil flora of Bovey Tracey'.

Communicated by Sir C [Charles] Lyell. Received by the Royal Society on 16 November 1861. Read 21 November 1861.

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 11, 1862.

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PT/67/8
Earliest possible date
1861
Physical description
Ink on paper
Page extent
113 pages
Format
Manuscript

Creator name

Oswald Heer

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Oswald Heer, Paper, 'The fossil flora of Bovey Tracey' by Oswald Heer, 1861, PT/67/8, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_67_8/paper-the-fossil-flora-of-bovey-tracey-by-oswald-heer, accessed on 07 February 2025

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