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View of the Great Tor
'Don't Broil your Babies
Head and shoulders portrait of the Comte de Buffon
Original is oil on panel 70x35
diplomat and scientist during the reign of Charles I
Fossil hyena jaw William Henry Toms View of the Great TorPlate 10 figure 7 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. Inscribed in pencil: 'Page 12. Young Hyaena. Lower jaw with one shedding molaris, and two permanent ones not perfectly formed.'