Fossil deer bones Size:Standard: 6 x 4in The church was built in

The church was built in the 17th century

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The accompanying text states that the mineral is 'Found chiefly in lime-stone rocks wherever they occur in Great Britain

Spencer Compton was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1830

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Fossil deer bones Size:Standard: 6 x 4in The church was built inPlate 11, from the paper 'An account of some organic remains found near Brentford, Middlesex', by William Kirby Trimmer, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 103 (1813), pp. 131 137. Four figures, identified by Trimmer as 'Bones of the deer kind' (jawbone, teeth and leg bone) in his published plate notes. The work is inscribed above with publication and plate details. Not signed. Royal Society stamp verso. Original: ink on paper. 1813