Paper, 'Notice of portions of the skeleton of the trunk and limbs of the great horned saurian of Australia (Megalania prisca, Ow.)' by Richard Owen
Reference number: PP/2/27
Date: 1882

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Owen writes: 'Former communications on the subject, admitted into the “Philosophical Transactions,” related to the skull and terminal caudal vertebræ, from a river-bed at Toowoomba, Queensland [Australia]; and in the discussion on those papers, a doubt was expressed whether they had been correctly referred to the genus and species founded upon trunk-vertebrae from other and remote localities, which had been the subject of a former paper, communicated to the Royal Society June 17th, 1858, and published in the volume of the “Transactions,” 1858, p. 48, Plates VII and VIII.'
Annotations in pencil and ink.
Subject: Zoology / Palaeontology
Received 19 June 1882.
A version of this paper was published in volume 34 of the Proceedings of the Royal Society as 'Notice of portions of the skeleton of the trunk and limbs of the great horned saurian of Australia (Megalania prisca, Ow.)'.
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- PP/2/27
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- 1882
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- 2 pages
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- Manuscript
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Richard Owen, Paper, 'Notice of portions of the skeleton of the trunk and limbs of the great horned saurian of Australia (Megalania prisca, Ow.)' by Richard Owen, 1882, PP/2/27, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pp_2_27/paper-notice-of-portions-of-the-skeleton-of-the-trunk-and-limbs-of-the-great-horned-saurian-of-australia-megalania-prisca-ow-by-richard-owen, accessed on 08 February 2025
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Scientific papers published in the Proceedings of the Royal Society volume 34, 1882-1883
1882-1883 Reference number: PP/2
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