Letter from Richard Owen, on his paper 'Evidence of a large extinct monotreme (Echidna Ramsayi, Ow.) from the Wellington Breccia Cave, New South Wales' to the Secretary of the Royal Society.
Reference number: RR/9/230
Date: 25 February 1884

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If the Council believe his paper is 'unneccesary' it should be returned to him. If not, he would like to meet a lithographer from the Museum of Natural History to discuss his findings. The curator of the Sydney Museum of Natural History believes the author's finding to be 'most reliable' and trusts his interpretation of the fossils.
Subject: Zoology
[Published in Philosophical Transactions, 1884].
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- RR/9/230
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- 25 February 1884
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- Letter on paper
- Page extent
- 3 pages
- Format
- Manuscript
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Letter from Richard Owen, on his paper 'Evidence of a large extinct monotreme (Echidna Ramsayi, Ow.) from the Wellington Breccia Cave, New South Wales' to the Secretary of the Royal Society., 25 February 1884, RR/9/230, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_9_230/letter-from-richard-owen-on-his-paper-evidence-of-a-large-extinct-monotreme-echidna-ramsayi-ow-from-the-wellington-breccia-cave-new-south-wales-to-the-secretary-of-the-royal-society, accessed on 10 February 2025
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XII. Evidence of a large extinct monotreme (Echidna Ramsayi, Ow.) from the Wellington Breccia Cave, New South Wales External link, opens in new tab.
Date: 31st December 1884
DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1884.0013
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Referee's report by William Henry Flower, on four papers 'Description of teeth of a large extinct (marsupial ?) genus, Sceparnodon, Ramsay', 'Evidence of a large extinct monotreme (Echidna Ramsayi, Ow.) from the Wellington Breccia Cave, New South Wales', 'Evidence of a large extinct lizard (notiosaurus dentatus, Owen) from pleistocene deposit, new south wales, Australia' and 'Description of parts of a human skeleton from a pleistocene (palaeolithic) bed, Tilbury, Essex' by Richard Owen
Creator: William Henry Flower Reference number: RR/9/231
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Richard Owen
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