'A Sawrian', 1836. Artist: John Scott

'A Sawrian', 1836. Artist: John Scott

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'A Sawrian', 1836. Cartoon on Gideon Mantell (1790-1852) the English geologist who discovered a saurian, the Iguanodon, near Cuckfield, Sussex, in 1820, and deduced from the teeth that it was a herbivore, not a carnivore like previously discovered dinosaurs. From Comic Annual by Thomas Hood. (London, 1836).

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