Re: Mantell or Buckland?

["Steve Brusatte" <dinoland@lycos.com>]

On Fri, 13 Jul 2001 15:51:10
 Dinosaur Interplanetary Gazette wrote:
>A note from Chris McGowan in response to a letter asking for
>clarification,  reveals the following:
>
>"Here is the resolution to the apparent puzzle.  Both Mantell and
>Buckland
>underwent  post-mortem examinations.   Part of Mantell's vertebral
>column was
>subsequently put on display at the Royal College of Surgeons Hunterian
>Museum,
>as recorded in the literature (there is a detailed account of the post
>mortem).
>
>Most of the museum was destroyed by incendiary bombs during WW II but
>some parts
>of the collection was saved.  I went searching in the rebuilt Hunterian
>Museum
>to see if I could find Mantell's vertebral remains.  There was no sign,
>and my
>enquies led me to conclude it was a casualty of the bombing.  But I did
>come
>across a preserved specimen on public display containing the base of
>Buckland's
>skull, and the first few cervical vertebrae."

Yeah, I received a very similar reply from Dr. McGowan this morning.  This is 
very interesting, indeed, that the remains of two of paleontology's early 
pioneers were both preserved at the same museum!  It would have been nice if 
Mantell's survived the war, but Buckland's are still on display.  Definitely 
something to see if I ever get to England.

Steve

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