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Paleontology

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  • De natuurlyke historie der versteeningen, of uitvoerige afbeelding en beschryving van de versteende zaaken, die tot heden op den aardbodem zyn ontdekt / aangevangen door Georg Wolfgang Knorr: vervolgd en omstandig beredeneerd door Johann Ernst Immanuel Walch ... uit het Hoog- in 't Nederduitsch vertaald door M. Houttuyn.
  • Fossilized head and bone fragments of a chiropolyostinus. Lithograph by H. O'Neil, 18--?.
  • Skeleton of the Missouri Leviathan: the skeleton is shown standing in a pastoral setting, with a Native American shown seated on an elephant to indicate scale, while another Native American and a man in Western dress look on. Coloured lithograph by G. Tytler, ca. 1845.
  • Fossilized head of a chiropolyostinus. Lithograph by B.J. Rossiter, 18--?.
  • A prehistoric man defends his family from an attacking bear: the man's family huddle together in a cave, while mammoths, a tiger (?), a rhinocerus and cattle roam in the landscape beyond. Colour lithograph, 1840/1900?.
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Catalogue

    • Archives and manuscripts

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

    | Date: 1831-1880 | Reference: MS.7428
    • Archives and manuscripts
    • Online

    M0008777EB: Animals from the Lower Palaeolithic Period

    | Date: January 1943 | Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/76/89
    Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive
    • Books

    The geographical and geological distribution of animals / [Angelo Heilprin].

    Heilprin, Angelo, 1853-1907. | Date: 1887
    • Books

    The first fossil hunters : paleontology in Greek and Roman times / Adrienne Mayor.

    Mayor, Adrienne, 1946- | Date: [2000], ©2000
    • Videos

    Theories of evolution : mechanisms of change. 1.

    | Date: 1993
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