Description | Watercolour, with pencil drawing structure details of fin rays, of a specimen of the fossil fish Pholidophorus Flesheri Agassiz, by Joseph Fisher, Oxford, 1834. Caption, by William Buckland, reads: 'The fish is in slaty yellow marl stone of inferior oolite formation and was dug out of a rock above Blisworth Tunnel in the Parish of Stoke Bruerne Near Northampton'. From the collection of Gilbert Flesher Esq, Towcester, Co Northampton. |
Administrative History | The writing of the caption bears similarities to William Buckland's hand, also Agassiz thanks Buckland in the published text for giving him the drawing. |