Record

RefNoAP/52/3/2
LevelItem
TitleUnpublished figures and photographs, pre-Carboniferous flora of North-Eastern America by John William Dawson
Date1870
DescriptionOver 280 labelled figures and photographs covering the cell structure, surface appearance, fossils, flowers and seeds of pre-Carboniferous flora of North-Eastern America, including: Syringoxylon, Dadoxylon [Agathoxylon], Ormoxylon, Prototaxites, Calamodendron, Calamites, Asterophyllites, Sphenophyllum, Annularia laxa, Pinnularia, Cyclostigma, Psilophyton princeps, Psilophyton robustius, Cyclopteris, Neuropteris, Pecopteris, Alethopteris and upper Silurian plants. Figures are in brown ink. Preceded by 17 pages of descriptions of the figures and photographs.

Subject: Botany / Geology / Palaeontology
Extent40p
FormatDrawing
Photograph
PhysicalDescriptionInk on paper
AccessStatusOpen
Fellows associated with this archive
CodePersonNameDates
NA6279Dawson; Sir; John William (1820 - 1899)1820 - 1899
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