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GB 378 LDGSL/613-616 · Series · 1831-1844

Drawings and watercolour paintings of fossil fish by Joseph Dinkel, J C Weber, Cécilie Agassiz, Jacques Bourkhardt, G A H Köppel and Sixtus Heinrich Jarwart and others, commissioned by Jean Louis Rudolphe Agassiz for his publications 'Recherches sur les Poissons Fossiles' (1833-1844) and the follow up 'Monographie des Poissons Fossiles du Vieux Grès Rouge' (1844-1845). Also includes drawings commissioned by Lord William Willoughby Cole (1807-1886), later the Earl of Enniskillen, and Sir Philip de Malpas Egerton (1806-1881) of their own fossil cabinets.

Agassiz , Jean Louis Rudolphe , 1807-1873 Agassiz , Cécilie , 1809-1848 , née Braun , natural history artist and first wife of Louis Agassiz Bourkhardt , Jacques , fl 1808-1867 , natural history artist Dinkel , Joseph Wenceslas Anton , [1806-1891] , natural history artist Hellmuth , Thomas , fl 1835 , natural history artist Hogard , Henri , 1808-1880 , watercolourist and lithographer Jarwart , Sixtus Heinrich , 1813-1865 , natural history artist Koppel , G A H , fl 1836-1838 , natural history artist Nicolet , Hercule , 1801-1872 , artist, lithographer and entomologist Stiven , Jonathan , [c.1799]-1872 , geological artist Vogt , Carl Christoph , 1817-1895 , scientist Weber , J Charles , fl 1831-1835 , natural history artist
GB 378 LDGSL 1101 · Series · [1972]

Typescript draft, with corrections, of paper 'The Piltdown Problem Reconsidered' by Dr Kenneth Page Oakley, [1972]. Paper describes the circumstances of the original Piltdown discovery by Charles Dawson and recounts Oakley's involvement in proving that the affair was a fraud.

OAKLEY , Kenneth Page , 1911-1981 , anthropologist