| Administrative History | Although her name does not appear anywhere on the print and in the 1856 Library catalogue only the donor Reverend John Gunn is referenced, it was later associated with the collector Anna Gurney from Norfolk.
However Gunn was an avid fossil collector in the same geographical area, who also collected mammoth bones.
Gurney's specimen was described as being found in the "Cliff composed of interblended blue clay and red gravel, near the village of Bacton, in Norfolk" and being 4ft 5 inches in length. [Hugh Falconer, 'Paleontographical Memoirs and notes... (1868), p143] |