Drawings, 'Osteological elements of the iguanodon' by G A [Gideon Algernon] Mantell
Reference number: PT/75/1/7
Date: 01 January 1840
Description
Plate 8, figures 1-36 showing the form of various bones of the iguanodon, as they were known at the time. Includes drawings of femurs, fibulas, tibias, metatarsals, metacarpals, ribs, vertebrae, and teeth. Inscribed with title, publication, scale, and plate details. Graphite inscription across the top reads 'Lithograph'. Signed in ink bottom left 'Drawn by G. A. Mantell. 1840.'
Subject: Palaeontology
Published in Philosophical Transactions as part of paper titled 'Memoir on a portion of the lower jaw of the iguanodon, and on the remains of the hylæosaurus and other saurians, discovered in the strata of Tilgate Forest, in Sussex' by Gideon Algernon Mantell.
Received by the Royal Society on 8 February 1841. Read 18 February 1841.
- Reference number
- PT/75/1/7
- Earliest possible date
- 01 January 1840
- Physical description
- Ink on paper
- Page extent
- 1 page
- Format
- Drawing
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Gideon Algernon Mantell, Drawings, 'Osteological elements of the iguanodon' by G A [Gideon Algernon] Mantell, 01 January 1840, PT/75/1/7, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_75_1_7/drawings-osteological-elements-of-the-iguanodon-by-g-a-gideon-algernon-mantell, accessed on 25 March 2025
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XI. Memoir on a portion of the lower jaw of the iguanodon, and on the remains of the hylæosaurus and other saurians, discovered in the strata of Tilgate Forest, in Sussex External link, opens in new tab.
Date: 31st December 1841
DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1841.0013
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Memoir on a portion of the lower jaw of an Iguanodon, and other Saurian remains discovered in the strata of Tilgate Forest, in Sussex External link, opens in new tab.
Date: 31st December 1843
DOI: 10.1098/rspl.1837.0148
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Paper, 'Memoir on a portion of the lower jaw of the iguanodon and other saurian remains discovered in the strata of Tilgate Forest in Sussex' by Gideon Algernon Mantell
Creator: Gideon Algernon Mantell Reference number: PT/25/4
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Illustrations produced for the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, 1840-1859
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Illustrations produced for the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, volume 131
1840-1841 Reference number: PT/75/1
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Dates: 1802 - 1865
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