Paintings, fossilised bones of horse, ox, hyena, fox, water rat, and rabbit with hyena coprolite by T [Thomas] Webster
Reference number: PT/73/9/26
Date: 1822
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Plate 24 showing 18 figures of assorted fossilised bones found at Kirkdale Cave, Yorkshire [England], on individual sheets pasted together, no backing sheet. The work is inscribed with publication and plate details. Signed lower left 'T. Webster del'. Royal Society stamp verso. The manuscript for this paper is wanting.
Subject: Palaeontology
Published in Philosophical Transactions as part of paper titled 'Account of an assemblage of fossil teeth and bones of elephant, rhinoceros, hippopotamus, bear, tiger, and hyæna, and sixteen other animals; discovered in a cave at Kirkdale, Yorkshire, in the year 1821: with a comparative view of five similar caverns in various parts of England, and others on the continent' by William Buckland.
Read to the Royal Society on 21 February 1822.
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- 1822
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- Ink wash on paper
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- 1 page
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- Painting
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William Buckland, Paintings, fossilised bones of horse, ox, hyena, fox, water rat, and rabbit with hyena coprolite by T [Thomas] Webster, 1822, PT/73/9/26, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_73_9_26/paintings-fossilised-bones-of-horse-ox-hyena-fox-water-rat-and-rabbit-with-hyena-coprolite-by-t-thomas-webster, accessed on 19 May 2025
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Account of an assemblage of fossil teeth and bones of elephant, rhinoceros, hippopotamus, bear, tiger, and and sixteen other animals; discovered in a cave at Kirkdale, Yorkshire, in the year 1821 : with a comparative view of five similar caverns in various parts of England, and others on the continent External link, opens in new tab.
Date: 31st December 1833
DOI: 10.1098/rspl.1815.0178
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XVI. Account of an assemblage of fossil teeth and bones of elephant, rhinoceros, hippopotamus, bear, tiger, and hyæna, and sixteen other animals; discovered in a cave at Kirkdale, Yorkshire, in the year 1821: with a comparative view of five similar caverns in various parts of England, and others on the continent External link, opens in new tab.
Date: 31st December 1822
DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1822.0017
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Illustrations produced for the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, 1807-1833
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Illustrations produced for the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, volume 112
Reference number: PT/73/9
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