| Description | Three black and white lithographic prints of hyena skulls and animal bones, t comprising:
(1) 'Teeth and bones found in Kent's Hole [Kent's Cavern], near Torquay, Devon, 1824', by Mary Morland [later Mary Buckland], printed by Charles Hullmandel and published by John Murray, 1825.
(2) 'Head of the extinct species of hyaena, found in diluvial clay at Lawford, near Rugby', by George Scharf after drawing by Thomas Webster, printed by Charles Hullmandel and published by John Murray, 1825.
(3) 'Superior and frontal view of hyaena's skull from Lawford', by George Scharf, printed by Charles Hullmandel and published by John Murray, 1825. |
| Administrative History | The legacy catalogue record indicates that the prints may have been produced for inclusion in William Buckland's projected second volume of 'Reliquiae Diluvianae'. This is likely to have come from Owen, Richard "British Fossil Mammals and Bird' (1846), p166. However plate one by Mary Morland is connected to William C Trevelyan's excavations at Kent's Cavern in October 1824, the specimens from which were sent to William Buckland who had a plate drawn by his fiancee Mary Morland, see: Kennard, A S, "Early digs in Kent's Hole, Torquay and Mrs Cazalet", Proceedings of the Geologists' Association, vol 56 (1945), p183, 196. |