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Fossils

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Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Created For = NAHSTE

Found in 57 Collections and/or Records:

Notes on numbers of shells in Porto Santo and Madeira excluding the Desertes, 1856

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Identifier: Coll-203/2/folio(s) 229-230
Scope and Contents

Notes on numbers of shells, both extinct and extant, in Porto Santo and Madeira with percentages of the total, 1856.

Dates: 1856

Notes relating to fossil shell species, 4 May [1856]

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Identifier: Coll-203/2/folio(s) 233
Scope and Contents

Notes relating to North African and South European species of fossil shells, 4 May [1856].

Dates: 4 May [1856]

Porto Santo fossils, 1855

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Identifier: Coll-203/2/folio(s) 205-206

Porto Santo shells, 1 December 1855

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Identifier: Coll-203/2/folio(s) 169-172
Scope and Contents

Notes and sketches relating to Porto Santo shells - limestone, Corals, and lists of other species. 1 December 1855.

Dates: 1 December 1855

Sketches of shells with notes, 1856

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Identifier: Coll-203/2/folio(s) 226-228
Scope and Contents

Sketches of shells with notes featuring Helix Aquensis from France, Helix Cariosula and Helix Depressula from North Africa by Henry Haversham Godwin-Austen, with envelope, 1856.

Dates: 1856

The Fossil "Desert Horse", 1870s-1930s

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Identifier: Coll-1434/323
Scope and Contents

Image of the skeleton of the fossil "Desert Horse" which was discovered through the Whitney Fund in [1906] and is mounted in the American Museum of Natural History, New York, NY, USA.

Dates: 1870s-1930s

Translation of a letter from Gaetano Gemmellaro, 1850s

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Identifier: Coll-203/4/29
Scope and Contents

Translation of a letter from Gaetano Gemmellaro concerning the gradual elevation of the coast of Sicily, the inclination of lava flows, the origin of the Balzo D'Aci which he thinks was affected by an Earthquake and fossil shells found in the Pleistocene beds of Cefali, Sematica and other places in Sicily by himself, Phillipi and Professor Aradas. 1850s.

Dates: 1850s