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Frontispiece "Ideale Landschaft der Miocenperiode" [Ideal landscape of the Miocene period] from Das Buch der Geologie. Naturgeschichte der Erde in allgemein verständlicher Darstellung für alle Freunde dieser Wissenschaft [The Book of Geology: The Natural History of the Earth in a Generally Understandable Presentation for All Friends of the Science] by Rudolph Ludwig (1861, Otto Spamer Publishing House, Leipzig)

https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.b4349889&seq=250&view=1up

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Frontispiece "Ideale Landschaft der Juraperiode" [Ideal landscape of the Jurassic period] from Das Buch der Geologie. Naturgeschichte der Erde in allgemein verständlicher Darstellung für alle Freunde dieser Wissenschaft [The Book of Geology: The Natural History of the Earth in a Generally Understandable Presentation for All Friends of the Science] by Rudolph Ludwig (1861, Otto Spamer Publishing House, Leipzig)

https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.b4349889&seq=12&view=1up

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"St. George and the Pterodactyl" by Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins, 1873, to illustrate his theory that legends of dragons may have been inspired by encounters with living pterosaurs.

The presence of the octopus is less easy to explain.

https://www.euppublishing.com/doi/10.3366/anh.2023.0866

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Happy 200th birthday to Iguanodon! On the 10th of February 1825, a letter from Gideon Mantell was put before the Royal Society in which Iguanodon was named.

https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rstl.1825.0010

'Reptiles restored, the remains of which are to be found in a fossil state in Tilgate Forest, Sussex' watercolour by George Johann Scharf, 1833, a draft for a now-lost painting that hung in Gideon Mantell's fossil museum

https://natlib.govt.nz/records/22600717?search%5Bi%5D%5Bplace_authority_id%5D=-328433&search%5Bpath%5D=items

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Anoplotherium commune drawing done in pen and ink on linen by Orra White Hitchcock for use in her husband Professor Edward Hitchcock's classes on geology and natural history, between 1828-1840, after Cuvier 1822

https://acdc.amherst.edu/view/OrraClassroomDrawings/ma01020-0046

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Palaeotherium magnum drawing done in pen and ink on linen by Orra White Hitchcock for use in her husband Professor Edward Hitchcock's classes on geology and natural history, between 1828-1840, after Cuvier 1822

https://acdc.amherst.edu/view/OrraClassroomDrawings/ma01020-0039

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'The Neanderthal Man' by Ernest Griset from Harper’s Weekly, July 10, 1873

https://bladeandbone.lindahall.org/25.shtml

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"The Iguanodon", from the Illustrated Crystal Palace Gazette, 9th June 1854

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'The Thames Valley in the olden time'. Illustration for The Leisure Hour, Vol. 21, Issue 1076 (10th August 1872), p. 504

https://archive.org/details/sim_leisure-hour-an-illustrated-magazine-for-home-reading_1872-08-10_21_1076/page/504/mode/1up

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'Reptiles Restored' by Archibald Willard, for his lecture “Marvels of the Natural World,” given in Cleveland in 1872

Artwork inspired by John Martin

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"Dinornis giganteus, Plesiosaurus, Ichthyosaurus" from God in nature and revelation by J. M. Woodman, 1875

https://archive.org/details/godinnaturerevel00wood/

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"Deposits of untold ages, rich with oil" from God in nature and revelation by J. M. Woodman, 1875

https://archive.org/details/godinnaturerevel00wood/

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"Gigantic fern" from God in nature and revelation by J. M. Woodman, 1875

https://archive.org/details/godinnaturerevel00wood/

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Restoration by Edwin Sheppard under direction of Edward Cope of his proboscidean Loxolophodon (now Uintatherium) theory from Edward Cope, 'The Monster of Mammoth Buttes', The Penn Monthly, August 1873, pp. 521-534.

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Watercolour by Ernest Griset depicting Richard Owen (seated) and the mineralogist Bryce Wright, ca. 1873

https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O229004/bryce-wright-and-prof-owen-drawing-ernest-griset/

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"St. George and the Pterodactyl" by Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins, 1873, to illustrate his theory that legends of dragons may have been inspired by encounters with living pterosaurs.

The presence of the octopus is less easy to explain.

https://www.euppublishing.com/doi/10.3366/anh.2023.0866

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"The sea which once covered the plains"

1. Elasmosaurus platyurus 2. Liodon [Tylosaurus] proriger 3., 4., 5. Ornithochirus [Ornithocherius] umbrosus 6. Ornithochirus [Ornithocherius] harpyia 7. Protostiga [Protostega] gigas 8. Polycotylus latipinnis

From Buffalo land; an authentic account of the discoveries, adventures, and mishaps of a scientific and sporting party in the Wild West by William Edward Webb, 1872

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/18649