Date Note | Dinkel's arrival in Britain; date of final livraison |
Description | Watercolour of a fragment [?scute] of the fossil fish Acipenser toliapicus Agassiz, by Joseph Dinkel, [1834-1844]. From the London Clay, Sheppy, in the collection of William Willoughby Cole, 3rd Earl of Enniskillen. Unpublished.
Note: later annotation references Frederick Dixon's 'The geology and fossils of the Tertiary and Cretaceous formations of Sussex' (1850), plate 9, presumably under the name 'Silurus egerton' then another annotation 'not a Silurus'. Image is not included. |
Administrative History | Likely to have been created as part of the research for Agassiz, J L R. 'Recherches sur les Poissons Fossiles' (1833-1843/1844), but not published. |