Remains of fossil plants, mostly trees

Remains of fossil plants, mostly trees, by Samuel Springsguth. The surgeon James Parkinson (1755-1824) is probably best known today for his identification of Shaking Palsy which he described in a publication in 1817. The condition was named Parkinson's Disease in 1876. However he was also a keen palaeontologist and would found the Geological Society in November 1807 with twelve others. Parkinson's first palaeontological book Organic Remains of a Former World (1804) was written in epistolary form and based on religious concepts of the Flood. Hand coloured engraving

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14154299

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45860609

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3656px x 4936px (2.4MB)

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Geological Society of London. From: Parkinson, James, Organic remains of a former world. An examination of the mineralized remains of the vegetables and animals of the antediluvian world generally termed extraneous fossils', London: J. Robson (1804-1811). Plate 9. - Image reference: 04-80

Date

1804