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:

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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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