| Date Note | Other dated drawings from this collection by this artist |
| Description | Watercolour of an almost complete specimen of the fossil fish Smerdis macrurus Agassiz, probably by Joseph Dinkel, [1833]. Mounted upside down.
Annotation: 'Originaux de Tab 7 du 43 vol: decrits p 57, provenant des Lignites d'Apt, et fesant partie de la Collection de M Regley a Paris, a l'exception d'un exemplaire qui se trouve au Museum de Paris et dont l'original est inconnue.'
Note: numbered '17'. |
| Administrative History | Francis Theophilus Marie Regley (1777-1833) was assistant naturalist in the department of geology at the Muséum Royal d'Histoire Naturelle [Royal Museum of Natural History], Paris. Regley's private collection contained a number of specimens from the fossil cabinet of Barthélemy Faujas de Fond (1741-1819). On Regley's death in 1833, the collection passed to Félix Carteret, who became a member of the Société Géologique de France in 1835. |