M0006015: An ancient fern (Pecopteris dentata)

Previous title, replaced August 2020: An ancient fern (Pecopteris Dentata)

Reproduction of a photograph of an ancient fern. It is reproduced as figure 15 with the caption "An ancient fern (Pecopteris dentata) from Pennsylvanian of Missouri. Original in the U.S. National Museum. From Knowlton's Plants of the Past, by courtesy of the Princeton University Press". in Schuchert, Charles: Outlines of Historical Geology, third edition, New York: J. Wiley & Sons, 1937.

12 January 1939

1 photograph glass plate negative; 12 x 16.5 cm

Catalogue data comes from a combination of entries in the original glass plate registers, metadata created when the glass plates were digitised in the early 2000s and enhancements made by the cataloguer in 2020.

Please consult the digitised version as this item is fragile. Email library@wellcomecollection.org to request access to the physical item.