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The Uneasy Correspondence between T. H. Huxley and E. P. Wright on Fossil Vertebrates Found in Jarrow, Co. Kilkenny (1865--67) (2011)

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Fossils Natural history 19th century Ireland Great Britain Wright, Edward Perceval Huxley, Thomas Henry Trinity College Dublin

The collection of Carboniferous fish and amphibian fossils found in Jarrow in 1864 has been the object of several studies, and has resided successively in at least three Irish museums. This paper draws from the Huxley archives in Imperial College London and from other archives to trace the history of its finding and earliest description. The story was marked by naivety, ambition, abuse, deception and delays, but eventually some of the fossils were salvaged by the expertise and determined action of Thomas Henry Huxley, not usually known for his patience, who stepped into a minefield of conflicting interests but managed to publish and illustrate seven new genera and species from among the specimens. In so doing he trampled, perhaps by relying too much on Wright's assurances, on the sensitivities and possible claims to priority of other local experts.

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Authors & Contributors
Torrens, Hugh S.
Taylor, Michael A.
Cameron, Marlena Briane
Fallon, Richard
Waller, G. N. H.
Williams, R. B.
Journals
Archives of Natural History
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences
History of Science
History
Endeavour: Review of the Progress of Science
19: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century
Publishers
Palgrave Macmillan
Florida State University
Faber & Faber
Cambridge University Press
Concepts
Natural history
Fossils
Paleontology
Museums
Dinosaurs
Science and literature
People
Huxley, Thomas Henry
Miller Fgs, Hugh
Bowerbank, James Scott (1797-1877)
Hutchinson, Henry Neville
Roberts, George
Buckland, Francis Trevelyan
Time Periods
19th century
20th century, early
21st century
20th century, late
20th century
18th century
Places
Great Britain
Ireland
England
United States
Wyoming (U.S.)
London (England)
Institutions
University of Wyoming
Trinity College Dublin
Hunterian Museum (London)
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