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Paper, 'On some fossil bones discovered in caverns in the limestone quarries of Oreston' by Joseph Whidbey in a letter to John Barrow

Reference number: PT/16/9

Date: 1823

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Refers to limestone caverns in Oreston, now a suburb of Plymouth. A portion of this paper was written by William Clift. The manuscript for Clift's section is found at PT/16/10. Illustrations for this paper have been separated from the manuscript and are found at PT/73/10/7-17.

Subject: Palaeontology

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'On some fossil bones discovered in caverns in the limestone quarries of Oreston. By Joseph Whidbey, Esq. F. R. S. in a letter addressed to John Barrow, Esq. F. R. S. to which is added, a description of the bones by Mr. William Clift, Conservator of the Museum of the College of Surgeons'.

Written by Whidbey at the Admiralty, London. Read 6 February 1823.

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 2, 1833.

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PT/16/9
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1823
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6 pages
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Joseph Whidbey

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Joseph Whidbey, Paper, 'On some fossil bones discovered in caverns in the limestone quarries of Oreston' by Joseph Whidbey in a letter to John Barrow, 1823, PT/16/9, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_16_9/paper-on-some-fossil-bones-discovered-in-caverns-in-the-limestone-quarries-of-oreston-by-joseph-whidbey-in-a-letter-to-john-barrow, accessed on 09 October 2024

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