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#OTD in 1804 #janeausten wrote to her sister from #LymeRegis. #MaryAnning's father, a carpenter, was asked to repair some furniture in their rented house. The Austens thought his estimate of 5 shillings was excessive, 'beyond the value of all the furniture in the room together'.
In these days of #PrehistoricPlanet and #JurassicWorldDominion, check out the latest issue of Earth Sciences History for the story of the first ever such reconstruction, Henry De la Beche's 1829–30 Duria antiquior, its various issues, and its links with #MaryAnning of #LymeRegis.