Poster advertising exhibition of a human fossil
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| BGS image ID: P849851 |
This poster was found in the back of a scrapbook that belonged to Roderick Murchison (1792-1871) who was Director of the Geological Survey of Great Britain, 1855-1871. The Cuvier referred to is Jean Léopold Nicolas Frédéric Cuvier (1769-1832), generally known as Georges Cuvier. He was a comparative anatomist, zoologist, geologist and vertebrate palaeontologist and a proponent of catastrophism.
Andrew L Morrison
"W. Buckland reports the following in his father's MS 'I saw the above, with Mr Pentland and Sir Francis Chantrey 12th June, 1840. It is nothing but concretion of chert in the Brussels sand, something like the head and trunk of a child without legs'"
ReplyDeleteBuckland, F.T. 1858. Curiosities of natural history p. 69.
...and £1 then is worth about £50 today - so I hope it was worth it!
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