William Martin
... that in the first scientific study of fossils in English, William Martin speculated that horn coral was a kind of bamboo and said another fossil was not a small crocodile tail?
... that in the first scientific study of <a href="./Fossil" id="mwEEQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Fossil">fossils</a> in English, <b id="mwEEU"><a href="./William_Martin_(naturalist)" id="mwEEY" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="William Martin (naturalist)">William Martin</a></b> speculated that <a href="./Rugosa" id="mwEEc" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Rugosa">horn coral</a> <i id="mwEEg">(pictured)</i> was a kind of <a href="./Bamboo" id="mwEEk" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Bamboo">bamboo</a> and said another fossil was not a small <a href="./Crocodile" id="mwEEo" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Crocodile">crocodile</a> tail?