Painting, fossilised metacarpal bones of a bos by [William Clift] Plate 9, figure 5 illustrating what William Clift described as 'The lower extremity of the metacarpal bone and the three pairs of phalanges of the bos [eg Bos taurus, cattle], viewed anteriorly.' Fossil found at Oreston Quarry, near Plymouth in Devon [England]. Inscribed with publication and plate details and a pencil note, upper left: 'Page 10 Bos.' Not signed. Royal Society stamp verso. Subject: Palaeontology Published in Philosophical Transactions as part of paper titled 'On some fossil bones discovered in caverns in the limestone quarries of Oreston' by Joseph Whidbey. Read to the Royal Society on 6 February 1823. [1822]