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Exploring Iguanodon by Gideon Mantell on the bicentenary of the naming of the fossil reptile found in Sussex.

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This book is:

  • Pages from the book Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London Volume 115, Issue 115, published in 1825 in which Gideon Mantell announces the name of the fossil reptile found in the sandstone of Tilgate forest, Sussex.
  • Illustrations of fossils from Gideon Mantell’s books.

 

By kind permission of the Royal Society.