Preserved remains or traces of organisms from a past geological age

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Geology: fossil remains in stone. Coloured engraving, 1811.

Geology: fossil remains in stone. Coloured engraving by S. Springsguth, 1833.

Scholars attending a lecture in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford. Coloured lithograph printed by C. Hullmandel after N. Whittock.

Geology: stalatites found in a cave in mountains at Surtshellir, Iceland. Engraving.

Geology: fossil remains in stone. Coloured engraving by S. Springsguth after M. Sheffield.

Geology: fossil remains in stone. Coloured engraving, 1833.

Various ammonite fossils illustrating Hooke's discourse of Earthquakes.

Geology: sections of the Dorset and Devonshire coastline, showing types of rock. Coloured lithograph by G. Scharf after H. Cornish.

Cross-section of a lead mine in Derbyshire, showing miners working towards an animal fossil. Lithograph by T. Webster after a sketch by W. Buckland.

Miscellany: United States of America, 19th-20th centuries

Second bibliography and catalogue of fossil Vertebrata of North America / [O.P. Hay].

On Platygonus compressus : a new fossil pachyderm / by John L. Le Conte.

The Mesosauria of South Africa / by H.G. Seeley.

Some account of the fossil remains of an animal more nearly allied to fishes than any of the other classes of animals / by Sir Everard Home.

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Fossils

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Miscellany: United States of America, 19th-20th centuries

Second bibliography and catalogue of fossil Vertebrata of North America / [O.P. Hay].

On Platygonus compressus : a new fossil pachyderm / by John L. Le Conte.

The Mesosauria of South Africa / by H.G. Seeley.

Some account of the fossil remains of an animal more nearly allied to fishes than any of the other classes of animals / by Sir Everard Home.

Fossils

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Works from the collections

Miscellany: United States of America, 19th-20th centuries

Second bibliography and catalogue of fossil Vertebrata of North America / [O.P. Hay].

On Platygonus compressus : a new fossil pachyderm / by John L. Le Conte.

The Mesosauria of South Africa / by H.G. Seeley.

Some account of the fossil remains of an animal more nearly allied to fishes than any of the other classes of animals / by Sir Everard Home.

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