Drawings, 'Iguanodon and other saurians' by G A [Gideon Algernon] Mantell
Reference number: PT/75/1/8
Date: 01 January 1841
Description
Plate 9, figures 1-14 showing the form of various bones of the iguanodon and other saurians. Includes drawings of horns, skulls, vertebrae, femurs, and metatarsals. Figures 1-7 and 10-14 drawn separately and pasted onto page with other figures. Inscribed with title, publication, and plate details. Graphite inscription across the top reads 'Lithograph'. Signed in ink bottom left 'G. A. Mantell del. 1841.'
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/75/1/8
- Earliest possible date
- 01 January 1841
- Physical description
- Ink on paper
- Page extent
- 1 page
- Format
- Drawing
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Gideon Algernon Mantell, Drawings, 'Iguanodon and other saurians' by G A [Gideon Algernon] Mantell, 01 January 1841, PT/75/1/8, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_75_1_8/drawings-iguanodon-and-other-saurians-by-g-a-gideon-algernon-mantell, accessed on 10 November 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
1840-1859 Reference number: PT/75 -
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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