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TitleDrawing of a tooth from unnamed fish
Date[1838-1844]
Date Notewmk 1834, according to Andrews (1982) fossils found from 1838; activities of Grant Malcolmson
LevelItem
Extent1 item
FormatPhotograph/drawing/painting/print
DescriptionInk drawing of a tooth from unnamed fossil fish, captioned ' Drawing 29. Middle Division of the Old Red Sandstone. Drawn by Miss Robertson from a specimen belonging to Rev D Robertson. Findhorn River, Morayshire'.
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Administrative HistoryCollected/drawn as part of the research for Louis Agassiz's 'Recherches sur les Poissons Fossiles' (1833-1843/1844).

Miss Robertson was the sister of Reverend Duncan Robertson, who may have copied it from another by local artist Jonathan Stiven.

The Robertsons ran a private boarding school for boys and were friends with Fellow John Grant Malcolmson. They were inspired by him to form their own fossil collection (now lost) from the local Findhorn beds
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LanguageEnglish
ArchNoteSource: Andrews, S M, 'The discovery of fossil fishes in Scotland up to 1845: with checklists of Agassiz's figured specimens'. Edinburgh: Royal Scottish Museum (1982). Based on a listing made by Mahala Andrews (1977-1981), expanded by Caroline Lam
Persons
CodePersonNameDates
DS/UK/44AGASSIZ; Jean Louis Rudolphe (1807-1873); palaeontologist, zoologist, and geomorphologist1807-1873
Places
CodePlaceName
NA177Moray
NA67Scotland
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