Ref No | LDGSL/97 |
Title | Lithograph of the fossil fox of Oeningen, Switzerland |
Date | 1832 |
Level | File |
Extent | 1 print |
Format | Photograph/drawing/painting/print |
Description | Roderick Impey MURCHISON, lithograph of the fossil fox of Oeningen, Switzerland, by George Scharf, 1832. |
Access Conditions | Access is by appointment only. Please contact the Archivist for further information. |
Language | English |
FindingAids | Accompanying paper read before the Society, 18 January 1830, and published as: 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. Item is an offprint of plate 33. |
Related Material | The fossil, which is a dog, is held by the Natural History Museum. |
ArchNote | Description by John Thackray |
CreatorName | SCHARF | George Johann | 1788-1860 | draughtsman and lithographer |
MURCHISON | Sir | Roderick Impey | 1792-1871 | Baronet | geologist and geographer |
Subject | Creodonta |
Carnivora |