| Description | Oil painting of a meeting of the British Association at Newcastle in 1838, by Thomas Henry Gregg. Sitters include: Roderick Impey Murchison, William Buckland, Richard Owen, Henry Thomas De La Beche, John Phillips, Charles Lyell and William Smith. Gilt frame, 61 x 75 cm. |
| Administrative History | The subject of the painting may be associated with a paper given by the comparative anatomist and palaeontologist (and Fellow of the Society) Richard Owen 'On the structure of the teeth and resemblance of ivory to bone as illustrated by microscopical examination of the teeth of man and of various existing and extinct animals' delivered before the Geological Section of the British Association meeting at Newcastle [but published under the Medical Section of the BA Annual Report] in 1838. |