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  • Fossilised human remains. Colour line block.
  • Jars containing human remains awaiting interment, Amoy, Fukien province, China.
  • Jars containing human remains awaiting interment, Amoy, Fukien province, China.
  • Specification of Henry Revell Spicer : cases for preserving human remains.
  • Galen discovering the remains of a human skeleton. Drawing by John Thurston.
  • The fossilised remains of a elk standing next to a human skeleton. Etching.
  • Ichthyosaurs attending a lecture on fossilised human remains. Lithograph by Sir Henry de la Bèche, 1830, after his drawing.
  • Fossilized organic remains, including those of a human, an an ornithocephalus and a bat. Etching by W. H. Lizars.
  • Ichthyosaurs attending a lecture on fossilised human remains. Lithograph by Sir Henry de la Bèche, 1830, after his drawing.
  • An animal skeleton of the Megatherium, a human skeleton found in Guadeloupe and the fossilised remains of a bird. Engraving by J. Moffat.