| Date Note | Some material from or through Murchison who was in Russia in the early 1840s |
| Description | Sheet of pencil sketches of miscellaneous of dermal plates from fossil fish of the Old Red Sandstone of Russia by unknown artist, [1840-1844].
Comprising:
Diplopterus macrocephalus Agassiz [from Printschka, possibly in the collection of Philip de Malpas Grey Egerton], Holoptychius nobilissimus, Platygnathus jamesoni Agassiz, Chelyophorus Verneuilii Agassiz
Bothriolepis favosa, Bothriolepis ornata [bottom of page] |
| Administrative History | Collected/drawn as part of the research either for Louis Agassiz's 'Recherches sur les Poissons Fossiles' (1833-1843/1844) or 'Monographie des poissons fossiles du vieux grès rouge ou système Dévonien (Old Red Sandstone) des Îles Britanniques et de Russie' (1844-1845). |
| Publication Note | Published in Agassiz, J L R, 'Monographie des Poissons Fossiles du Vieux Grès Rouge' (1844/5), Tab 30A, figs 14-15; Tab 31A, figs 1-7, 14-15, 22-23, 26 |