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RefNoPT/12/3/2
LevelItem
TitlePlate, 'The different parts that compose the sternum, in the fossil animal' and 'The corresponding bones in the ornithorhynchus paradoxus' by W [William] Clift
Date[1818]
DescriptionPlate containing figures 1 and 2 showing the sternum of the fossilised animal compared with the sternum of the ornithorhynchus paradoxus.

Subject: Palaeontology

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'Additional facts respecting the fossil remains of an animal, on the subject of which two papers have been printed in the Philosophical Transctions, showing that the bones of the sternum resemble those of the ornithorhynchus paradoxus'.

Read 22 January 1818.
Extent1p
FormatDrawing
PhysicalDescriptionGraphite and grey watercolour on paper
AccessStatusOpen
RelatedMaterialDOI: 10.1098/rspl.1815.0074
DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1818.0005
RelatedRecordPT/12/3
Fellows associated with this archive
CodePersonNameDates
NA4668Home; Sir; Everard (1756 - 1832); surgeon1756 - 1832
NA7491Clift; William (1775 - 1849); museum curator and scientific illustrator1775 - 1849
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