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TitleLetter from 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 to the Secretary of the Royal Society
Date6 February 1884
DescriptionGiven that the referee was only given a small window of time to complete the reports, he 'not had very much time to examine them'. Has included reports.

Subject: Palaeography / Zoology

['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' all published in Philosophical Transactions, 1884].
['Description of parts of a human skeleton from a pleistocene (palaeolithic) bed, Tilbury, Essex' published in Proceedings of the Royal Society, 1883].
Extent2p
FormatManuscript
PhysicalDescriptionLetter on paper
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AccessStatusOpen
RelatedMaterialDOI: 10.1098/rstl.1884.0010
DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1884.0013
DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1884.0011
DOI: 10.1098/rspl.1883.0085
RelatedRecordRR/9/231
AP/62/6
Fellows associated with this archive
CodePersonNameDates
NA5526Flower; Sir; William Henry (1831 - 1899)1831 - 1899
NA8083Owen; Sir; Richard (1804 - 1892)1804 - 1892
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