Youth's Magazine, 3rd ser. 3 (1830), 253–56.
Fossil Human Skeleton, Found in Guadaloupe
Anon
Genre: | Introduction; Extract |
Publications extracted: | Charles D E Konig Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society |
Relevant illustrations: | wdct. |
Subjects: | Palaeontology, Human Species, Chemistry |
People mentioned: | Alexander F I Cochrane , Humphry Davy |
Introduces a purely descriptive extract concerning the fossil skeleton with the observation that it is 'an instance of a fossil human petrefaction in an alluvial formation' (153). | |
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