Fossils

• Joshua Platt, a dealer in curiosities, discovers three large dinosaurian vertebrae at Stonesfield
  Stonesfield
  Stonesfield is a village and civil parish about north of Witney in Oxfordshire.The village is on the crest of an escarpment. The parish extends mostly north and north-east of the village, in which directions the land rises gently and then descends to the Glyme at Glympton and Wootton about to the...
  
  . He sends them off for examination to a Quaker botanist, merchant, and friend of Benjamin Franklin
  Benjamin Franklin
  Dr. Benjamin Franklin was one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. A noted polymath, Franklin was a leading author, printer, political theorist, politician, postmaster, scientist, musician, inventor, satirist, civic activist, statesman, and diplomat...
  
   named Peter Collinson
  Peter Collinson FRS
  Peter Collinson was a Fellow of the Royal Society, an avid gardener, and the middleman for an international exchange of scientific ideas in mid-18th century London...
  
  . Sadly, Collinson never gives them Platt's desired examination, and the fate and specific identity of the fossils remain unknown.