Specimen
of the Month
January
2016
Gideon Algernon
Mantell - the
Mantell piece 1834! PDF
'The
Mantell piece discovered in Bensstead's quarry just outside Maidstone.Kent,
Left is the cast, now in the Bentliff Gallery Maidstone alongside the
drawing from W. Bensteads notebook. It is believed that Richard Owen invented
the word Dinosaur,(Terrible lizard) as a result of studying this group
of fossil bones along side the two other known giant reptile bone specimens
of this time.
Cover
of W. Benstead's note book(
Sketch
of the quarry from Bensteads notebook