Painting, 'Vertical section of the great cave at Gailenreuth' by [Thomas Webster after William Buckland]
Reference number: PT/73/9/29
Date: 1822

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Plate 26 showing a sectional landscape of levels within the Gailenreuth cave complex near Bamberg, Bavaria [Upper Franconia], Germany, showing explorers using torchlight and a ladder to investigate stalactites and deposits of fossil bones. The work is inscribed with publication and plate details. Not signed, but inscribed lower left in pencil 'Is. [Isaac] Basire sc'. Royal Society stamp verso. Watermarked 'J Whatman Turkey Mills 1819'. 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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William Buckland, Painting, 'Vertical section of the great cave at Gailenreuth' by [Thomas Webster after William Buckland], 1822, PT/73/9/29, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_73_9_29/painting-vertical-section-of-the-great-cave-at-gailenreuth-by-thomas-webster-after-william-buckland, accessed on 10 February 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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