Fossil vegetables from Mansfield
Digital Commonwealth — Amherst College Archives & Special Collections

Fossil vegetables from Mansfield

Hitchcock, Orra White, 1796-1863 · [ca. 1840–1841]

CC0 — Public Domain
Digital Commonwealth — Amherst College Archives & Special Collections

Five pen and inkwash drawings of plant fossil specimens on one sheet by Orra White Hitchcock. The specimens come from Mansfield, Massachusetts, are labeled 221 through 225, and appeared in Edward Hitchcock's Final Report on the Geology of Massachusetts as plate 27. The title is written in Edward Hitchcock's hand. The artwork is housed in a mat for conservation.

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