Figure 10 - uploaded by Patrick N Wyse Jackson
Content may be subject to copyright.
Uncatalogued watercolour of Serpula contortiplicata from GSI archive file of Baily's proofs of Figures of Characteristic British Fossils.
Source publication
Bristol-born William Hellier Baily (1819-1888) was an accomplished artist and lithographer, who spent all of his adult life employed by the Geological Survey, first in London and then from 1857 until his death in Dublin. He was responsible for the identification and curation of thousands of fossil specimens on which he provided reports for the offi...
Context in source publication
Context 1
... he was competent with fossils, his naturalist abilities with modern species were more limited, and lists of shells from ice dredged marine deposits around Ireland were often provided by other specialists for the GSI memoirs. However, as Figure 10 shows, he was not unaware of living relatives of the fossils he identified. ...
Similar publications
Citations
... 47 Baily (figure 3) was a palaeontologist from Bristol, a fellow of the Geological and Linnean societies, who had been working as acting palaeontologist in the Geological Survey of Ireland since 1857 and thus under the direction of Joseph Beete Jukes. 48 He was a considerable and very accurate lithographer who specialized in fossil illustration, and by the end of his life had catalogued more than 30 000 fossil specimens, had written more than 60 original contributions on fossils, and had produced a considerable number of illustrations for his own and other people's palaeontological work. 48 He had also worked with Brownrigg in the RGSI in the preparation of a catalogue of its library. ...
... 48 He was a considerable and very accurate lithographer who specialized in fossil illustration, and by the end of his life had catalogued more than 30 000 fossil specimens, had written more than 60 original contributions on fossils, and had produced a considerable number of illustrations for his own and other people's palaeontological work. 48 He had also worked with Brownrigg in the RGSI in the preparation of a catalogue of its library. 49 The report of the GSD meeting of 10 June 1863 in that society's Journal 50 recorded in addition other work from Mr Baily, and was not published until 1864. ...
... Baily was well positioned to claim some priority himself with regard to the find, or at least with the description of the fossils, because he had a supervisory role over the fossil collectors of the GSI and was often on site, 48 and also because he had illustrated some of them in great detail even before Huxley had set eyes on them; however, Huxley was right in suggesting that Baily had not been assertive enough in temperament or thorough enough in his description, effectively letting the opportunity pass. Baily worked under Jukes in the GSI, and their relationship with regard to the delineation of their respective duties was often tense. ...
The collection of Carboniferous fish and amphibian fossils found in Jarrow in 1864 has been the object of several studies, and has resided successively in at least three Irish museums. This paper draws from the Huxley archives in Imperial College London and from other archives to trace the history of its finding and earliest description. The story was marked by naivety, ambition, abuse, deception and delays, but eventually some of the fossils were salvaged by the expertise and determined action of Thomas Henry Huxley, not usually known for his patience, who stepped into a minefield of conflicting interests but managed to publish and illustrate seven new genera and species from among the specimens. In so doing he trampled, perhaps by relying too much on Wright's assurances, on the sensitivities and possible claims to priority of other local experts.
... 47 Baily (figure 3) was a palaeontologist from Bristol, a fellow of the Geological and Linnean societies, who had been working as acting palaeontologist in the Geological Survey of Ireland since 1857 and thus under the direction of Joseph Beete Jukes. 48 He was a considerable and very accurate lithographer who specialized in fossil illustration, and by the end of his life had catalogued more than 30 000 fossil specimens, had written more than 60 original contributions on fossils, and had produced a considerable number of illustrations for his own and other people's palaeontological work. 48 He had also worked with Brownrigg in the RGSI in the preparation of a catalogue of its library. ...
... 48 He was a considerable and very accurate lithographer who specialized in fossil illustration, and by the end of his life had catalogued more than 30 000 fossil specimens, had written more than 60 original contributions on fossils, and had produced a considerable number of illustrations for his own and other people's palaeontological work. 48 He had also worked with Brownrigg in the RGSI in the preparation of a catalogue of its library. 49 The report of the GSD meeting of 10 June 1863 in that society's Journal 50 recorded in addition other work from Mr Baily, and was not published until 1864. ...
... Baily was well positioned to claim some priority himself with regard to the find, or at least with the description of the fossils, because he had a supervisory role over the fossil collectors of the GSI and was often on site, 48 and also because he had illustrated some of them in great detail even before Huxley had set eyes on them; however, Huxley was right in suggesting that Baily had not been assertive enough in temperament or thorough enough in his description, effectively letting the opportunity pass. Baily worked under Jukes in the GSI, and their relationship with regard to the delineation of their respective duties was often tense. ...
Fossils have stirred the imagination globally for thousands of years, starting well before they were recognized as the remains of once-living organisms and proxies of former worlds. This volume samples the history of art about fossils and the visual conceptualization of their significance starting with biblical and mythological depictions, extending to renditions of ancient life as it flourished in long-vanished habitats, and on to a modern understanding that fossil art conveys lessons for the betterment of the human condition. The 29 papers and accompanying artwork illustrate how art about fossils has come to be a significant teaching tool not only about evolution of past life, but also about conservation of our planet for the benefit of future generations.
