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Paper, 'Additional observations on the osteology of the iguanodon and hylæosaurus' by Gideon Algernon Mantell

Reference number: PT/35/10

Date: 15 January 1849

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66 manuscript pages including two figures and nine separate plates. Paper also includes a section titled 'Notes on the vertebral column of the iguanodon' by A G [Alexander Gordon] Melville.

Subject: Palaeontology

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'Additional observations on the osteology of the Iguanodon and Hylæosaurus'.

Written by Mantell at 19 Chester Square, Pimlico [London]. Received by the Royal Society on 15 January 1849. Read 8 March 1849.

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/35/10
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15 January 1849
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Ink on paper
Page extent
75 pages
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Manuscript

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Gideon Algernon Mantell

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Gideon Algernon Mantell, Paper, 'Additional observations on the osteology of the iguanodon and hylæosaurus' by Gideon Algernon Mantell, 15 January 1849, PT/35/10, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_35_10/paper-additional-observations-on-the-osteology-of-the-iguanodon-and-hylæosaurus-by-gideon-algernon-mantell, accessed on 14 September 2024

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    Dates: 1802-1865

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