| Ref No | LDGSL/128 |
| Title | Painting of jawbones of chimaeroid fish |
| Date | 1843 |
| Level | File |
| Extent | 1 ms sheet |
| Format | Photograph/drawing/painting/print |
| Description | Philip de Malpas Grey EGERTON. Watercolour painting of seven jawbones of chimaeroid fish by George Scharf, 1843. Captioned:
1-2) Iscyhodus dufrenoyi. Left lower maxillary
3, 4, 5) Iscyhodus beaumonti. Right upper maxillary
6-7) Iscyhodus dutertrei [dutetreii]. Left lower maxillary.
There are pencil notes on the front and reverse, which make reference to Smith 'Tertiaries of Tagus' [James Smith of Jordan-Hill, "On the Age of the Tertiary Beds of Tagus, with a catalogue of fossils", 'Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London', vol 3, pp 410-422] |
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| Language | English |
| Related Material | Another drawing by Scharf from 1843 relating to this paper is in the Agassiz fish series, LDGSL/616/2/42/3. |
| Publication Note | From a paper read before the Society, 22 February 1843, and published as: Egerton, P. "On some new species of fossil chimaeroid fish", 'Proceedings of the Geological Society of London', vol 4 (1843), pp153-157. Painting not published. |
| ArchNote | Description by John Thackray |
| CreatorName | SCHARF | George Johann | 1788-1860 | draughtsman and lithographer |
| Subject | Chondrichthyes |