PALAEONTOLOGY OF A 
BEING DESCRIPTIONE A 
AND SECONDARY FOSSU 
STRACHEY, R.E. DESCRL' 
BLANFORD.” 8vo. Calcutti 
1865. Pp. 112, Pls. I-XXIII. 
By C. Davies 
IE NORTH I Hli T AS, 
URES OF i PALAx, 'C 
UECTED B JOL. RICHi >• 
BY J. W. S TER AND H 
, Military ' ian Press, 186* 
orn, D.Sc. 
This book is not rare, but exists in t 
Pls. I, III, IV, V were drawn by Sal 
Sowerby. 
II drawn and engraved by Sowe. 
VI drawn by Sowerby and on stoi. 
VII, VIII, IX drawn and engrave 
X, XI, XII, XIII, XIV lithograp 
XV, XVI, XVII, XVIII, XIX, , 
grapbed by A. W. Lawder. 
In the second issue. 
es of the plates : 
nd engraved on copper by J. de C. 
) by W. West. 
* Sowerby. 
by Kristchury Doss. 
XXI, XXII, and XXIII litho- 
Pls. X to XIII, XVI to XVIII, XXI to A XIII were drawn and lithographed 
by W. H. Baily. e 1 
XIV, XV, XIX, XX were drawn and lithographed by C. R. Bone. 
The original copper plates v re not printed from (? destroyed) and plates 
I to IX are represented by pho ographic copies (now nearly faded away). 
No impressions from these c tpper plates were known to exist until Gen. Sir 
Richard Strachey, just before his death (1908), gave Sberborn a set of proofs 
for the British Museum (Natural History) saying he d lot know of any other 
impression. 
However, in 1913 Lady Strr.chey gave Dr. Ca poei Smith her copy of the 
Niti work with another set of impression^ from t J ^ers, and this was given 
to the Museum in 1937. 
Toth set of plates and both variat ms a tL refore preserved in the 
Geologica.l I brary of the British Muse n (Nbtural Pa■ tory). 
t 
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J. SOC. BIBL. NAT. HIST. VOL. 1. PT. 4. DEC. 1937. 
