'Silex arenacea' mb-code DCA_102848 Alan Hitchcock and John Sainty

Alan Hitchcock and John Sainty

Dogs sniff eachother in the foreground

The plate is headed 'LIFE BOAT CXI

His first attack lasted more than a week during which he delivered many speeches in public and at private events

'Silex arenacea' mb-code DCA_102848 Alan Hitchcock and John SaintyFossil shells in sandstone, here termed 'calcereous sandstone'. Plate 15 from British mineralogy: or coloured figures intended to elucidate the mineralogy of Great Britain, by James Sowerby, volume 1 (London, R. Taylor & Co., 1804). The accompanying text states that 'Masses of this were found at near twelve feet deep in a lightly gravel stratum, in cutting the canal at the Isle of Dogs' The plate is inscribed: 'Feb. 1 1803. Published by Jas. Sowerby,