| Date Note | Activity of artist in Britain; Agassiz visits Bristol in autumn 1834 |
| Administrative History | The specimen was found by Mary Anning around or before December 1829. It was purchased from Anning by John Nash Sanders who donated it to the Bristol Institution in 1831. In October 1834 it was brought to the attention of the Swiss naturalist Louis Agassiz who was immersed in the research for his ‘Recherches sur les Poissons Fossiles’. The drawing only shows the front part of the fish [the original specimen was destroyed during World War Two] but the tail, which was found separately, survives in the Philpot collection now at Oxford University Museum of Natural History. |