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LDGSL - LDGSL - Deposited papers series
615 - LDGSL/615 - Artwork for Louis Agassiz's 'Recherches sur les Poissons Fossiles' & 'Monographie des Poissons Fossiles du Vieux Grès Rouge'
30 - LDGSL/615/30 - 'Monographie des Poissons Fossiles du Vieux Grès Rouge': folio 4, sheet 30
Ref No
LDGSL/615/30/1
Title
Watercolour of Diplopterus borealis Agassiz
Date
[1835-1841]
Date Note
Genus referenced in 1835, Agassiz visited collection in 1840, drawing by Dinkel of this collection watermarked 1841
Level
Item
Extent
1 drawing
Format
Photograph/drawing/painting/print
Description
Watercolour of an incomplete specimen of the fossil fish Diplopterus borealis Agassiz [missing head and tail] by Jacques Bourkhardt, [1835-1841]. Found in Pomona [Orkney], from the collection of Dr Thomas Stewart Traill.
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Language
n/a
ArchNote
Based on a listing made by Mahala Andrews (1977-1981), expanded by Caroline Lam
CreatorName
BOURKHARDT | Jacques | [1808]-1867 | natural history artist
Subject
Devonian
Previous reference
LDGSL 615
Persons
Code
PersonName
Dates
DS/UK/1035
BOURKHARDT; Jacques ([1808]-1867); natural history artist
[1808]-1867
DS/UK/44
AGASSIZ; Jean Louis Rudolphe (1807-1873); palaeontologist, zoologist, and geomorphologist
1807-1873
DS/UK/1113
TRAILL; Thomas Stewart (1781-1862); chemist and mineralogist
1781-1862
Places
Code
PlaceName
NA269
Orkney Islands
NA67
Scotland
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