| RefNo | RR/2/145 |
| Level | Item |
| Title | 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 |
| Date | 4 June 1850 |
| Description | 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] |
| Extent | 6p |
| Format | Manuscript |
| PhysicalDescription | Letter on paper |
| Digital images | View item on Science in the Making |
| AccessStatus | Open |
| RelatedMaterial | DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1850.0017 Vol.140 1850 |
| RelatedRecord | PT.38.2 |
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Fellows associated with this archive
| Code | PersonName | Dates |
| NA6290 | Grant; Robert Edmond (1793 - 1874) | 1793 - 1874 |
| NA7470 | Mantell; Gideon Algernon (1790 - 1852) | 1790 - 1852 |