Fossil sea turtle "Chelone pulchriceps" mb-height 4005 B O'Connell F/R: M Pearson

B O'Connell F/R: M Pearson

St Thomas Square chapel and schools

keeps himself fit by practicing his football skills at the club's training ground

24th December 1940

Fossil sea turtle "Chelone pulchriceps" mb-height 4005 B O'Connell F/R: M PearsonSide view of the fossil head of a sea turtle named by Richard Owen FRS (1804 1892) in 1842. Inscribed below in ink: "Chelone pulchriceps. Owen. No. 3. side view". Not signed or dated. The Rev. Thomas Image, Rector of Whepstead, was a fossil collector and Fellow of the Geological Society. His collection was sold to the Woodwardian Museum, Cambridge. From papers of the naturalist and geologist Caleb Burrell Rose (1790 1872). Original: watercolour on