Fossil wolf jawbone Thurlow Laurence Pountney Hill

Laurence Pountney Hill

Almost opposite Mansfield Place

Just visible on the left is the Bank of England and on the right is the Royal Exchange with the statue of the Duke of Wellington in front

Scientific enquiry had increasingly been conflicting with established religious beliefs

Fossil wolf jawbone Thurlow Laurence Pountney HillPlate 8 figures 2 3 from the paper 'On some fossil bones discovered in caverns in the limestone quarries of Oreston', by Joseph Whidbey with the supplementary paper 'A description of the fossil bones found in the caverns of Oreston', by William Clift, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 113 (1823), pp. 78 90. Two views of what Clift described as 'part of the lower jaw of a young wolf, in a diseased state from abcess.' Figure 2 inside