Date Note | Dates given for visit to site in QJGS, date of publication |
Description | Pencil and ink drawings of caves and a fossil from Natal, South Africa, [1851-1855] relating to Robert J GARDEN's paper "Notice of some Cretaceous Rocks near Natal, South Africa", (1855), comprising:
1) Pencil drawing "Izinhluzabalungu or the Whitemen's houses near the Umtafuna River, South Africa", depicting the site of the discovery of the Ammonite soutonii, copied from a sketch by Captain R J Garden, by unknown artist. 2) Pencil drawing "Caves on the South African coast near Natal", copied from a sketch by Captain R J Garden, by unknown artist. 3) Ink sketch "Inoceramus - on South African Coast", by unknown artist [?Robert J Garden], showing a fragment of the fossil. |
Publication Note | From a communication read before the Society, 18 April 1855, and published as: Garden, R J. "Notice of some Cretaceous Rocks near Natal, South Africa", 'Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society', vol 11 (1855), pp453-454. Drawings not published. |