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Paper, 'On the occurrence of flint implements associated with the remains of animals of extinct species in beds of a late geological period, in France at Amiens and Abbeville, and in England at Hoxne' by Josh [Joseph] Prestwich

Reference number: PT/61/1

Date: 1859

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Refers to Hoxne in Suffolk. 104 manuscript pages and 11 plates.

Subject: Palaeontology / Archaeology

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'On the occurrence of flint-implements, associated with the remains of animals of extinct species in beds of a late geological period, in France at Amiens and Abbeville, and in England at Hoxne'.

Received by the Royal Society on 19 May 1859. Read 26 May 1859.

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 10, 1860.

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PT/61/1
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1859
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115 pages
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Joseph Prestwich

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Joseph Prestwich, Paper, 'On the occurrence of flint implements associated with the remains of animals of extinct species in beds of a late geological period, in France at Amiens and Abbeville, and in England at Hoxne' by Josh [Joseph] Prestwich, 1859, PT/61/1, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_61_1/paper-on-the-occurrence-of-flint-implements-associated-with-the-remains-of-animals-of-extinct-species-in-beds-of-a-late-geological-period-in-france-at-amiens-and-abbeville-and-in-england-at-hoxne-by-josh-joseph-prestwich, accessed on 16 September 2024

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