| Date Note | Photographs & initial drawings made in 1857, legacy date given to the file. |
| Description | Seven black & white photographs (three of which are stereoscopic) by James Glen Wilson, and a sheet of ink drawings either by or after George Bennett, of the skull of Zygomaturus/Nototherium from Australia, [1857]. Also sheet of pencil and ink line drawings made by Richard Owen comparing the skulls of a tapir, koala and manatee, [1857-1858]. File includes offprint of the engraved plates taken from the published paper in the Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society, vol 15, (1859). |
| Administrative History | The photographs were given to Sir Roderick Murchison by the New South Wales Governor, Sir William Denison, who subsequently passed them to Richard Owen. The photographs were presented to the Society in 1859 by Sir Roderick Murchison on behalf of Denison.
In the published paper, Owen states that his friend and correspondence George Bennett, FLS, sent him four outline drawings he made of the skull when it had been first received by the Australian Museum at Sydney in 1857. Only two which may be by him or copied from the originals are in the file. |
| Publication Note | From a paper read before the Society 10 March 1858 and published as: Owen, Richard, "On some outline drawings and photographs of the skull of the Zygomaturus trilobus...". 'Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society, vol 15 (1859), pp168-176. Drawings on pl 7-8. Plate IX of the offprint is included in the paper: Owen, Richard, "On a collection of Australian fossils in the Museum of Natural History Society at Worcester; with descriptions of the lower jaw and teeth of the Nototherium Inerme and Nototherium Mitchelli, Owen; demonstrating the identity of the latter species with the Zygomaturus of Macleay", 'Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society, vol 15 (1859), pp 176-186. |