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Referee's report by Robert Edmond Grant, on a paper 'On the Pelorosaurus; an undescribed gigantic terrestrial reptile whose remains are associated with those of the Iguanodon and other saurians in the strata of Tilgate Forest, in Sussex' by Gideon Algernon Mantell

Reference number: RR/2/145

Date: 04 June 1850

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Recommended for publication in the 'Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society'. Has encouraged the author to examine other specimens at the British Museum [Natural History Museum, London] and specimens in the collection of William Buckland at Oxford, from which further discoveries have been made. The illustrations by Joseph Dinkel are exceptional.

Subject: Palaeontology

[Published in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society]

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RR/2/145
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04 June 1850
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Letter on paper
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6 pages
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Manuscript

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Robert Edmond Grant

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Robert Edmond Grant, Referee's report by Robert Edmond Grant, on a paper 'On the Pelorosaurus; an undescribed gigantic terrestrial reptile whose remains are associated with those of the Iguanodon and other saurians in the strata of Tilgate Forest, in Sussex' by Gideon Algernon Mantell, 04 June 1850, RR/2/145, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_2_145/referees-report-by-robert-edmond-grant-on-a-paper-on-the-pelorosaurus-an-undescribed-gigantic-terrestrial-reptile-whose-remains-are-associated-with-those-of-the-iguanodon-and-other-saurians-in-the-strata-of-tilgate-forest-in-sussex-by-gideon-algernon-mantell, accessed on 11 November 2025

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