| Description | Murchison correspondence: letter from Gideon Algernon MANTELL, Castle Place, Lewes, Sussex, 18 November 1829. Re: arrival of a package containing a skeleton [?a modern fox], but will await his friend Dr Hodgkin to help to set it up; keen that the artist George Scharf completes the outline of a fossil fox so he can draw up an account of its osteology, and suggests that Murchison have a cast made of the extraordinary specimen to be housed in the museums of Europe. |
| Administrative History | The fossil fox in question, which was found in the autumn of 1828, was described in: Murchison, R I. "On a Fossil Fox found at Œningen near Constance; with an Account of the Deposit in which it was imbedded", Transactions of the Geological Society of London, series 2, vol 3 (1832), pp277-290 and in Gideon Mantell's paper "Anatomical description of the Fox", Transactions of the Geological Society of London, series 2, vol 3 (1832), 291-293. |