A Guide to the Exhibition Rooms of the Departments of Natural History and Antiquitiesorder of the Trustees, 1874 - 153 pages |
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... chiefly committed to the " Principal Librarian , " who was to be con- tinually aided in the execution of his duty by such officers as should be appointed for that purpose . Montague House was purchased by the Trustees in 1754 for a gene ...
... chiefly committed to the " Principal Librarian , " who was to be con- tinually aided in the execution of his duty by such officers as should be appointed for that purpose . Montague House was purchased by the Trustees in 1754 for a gene ...
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... chiefly on low shrubs , or graze . The Bats , which have the skin extended between the fingers of their fore - limbs , fly about in the dusk and at night ; they feed chiefly upon insects ; some of the larger species , often called Fox ...
... chiefly on low shrubs , or graze . The Bats , which have the skin extended between the fingers of their fore - limbs , fly about in the dusk and at night ; they feed chiefly upon insects ; some of the larger species , often called Fox ...
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... chiefly distin- guished by the very narrow division between their nostrils . The Chimpanzees of West Africa are black ; while the Orangs of Borneo and Sumatra are red - haired . They are generally called Anthro- poid Apes , from having ...
... chiefly distin- guished by the very narrow division between their nostrils . The Chimpanzees of West Africa are black ; while the Orangs of Borneo and Sumatra are red - haired . They are generally called Anthro- poid Apes , from having ...
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... chiefly on carrion . Case 32. The Civets , which secrete in a pouch a peculiar substance used as perfume . The Genets , Lingsang , Bassaris , and Ichneumons prey upon the smaller quadrupeds and birds , and are fond of sucking the eggs ...
... chiefly on carrion . Case 32. The Civets , which secrete in a pouch a peculiar substance used as perfume . The Genets , Lingsang , Bassaris , and Ichneumons prey upon the smaller quadrupeds and birds , and are fond of sucking the eggs ...
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... chiefly on seals and fish . The tropical Bears have generally short fur and long tongues . Most of the Bears can climb well , and balance themselves on the hind legs with ease . The American Raccoon has been called Lotor , or the Washer ...
... chiefly on seals and fish . The tropical Bears have generally short fur and long tongues . Most of the Bears can climb well , and balance themselves on the hind legs with ease . The American Raccoon has been called Lotor , or the Washer ...
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19th dynasty Africa Amenophis III amongst ancient animals antiquities Apollo Archaic arranged Assur-bani-pal Assur-izir-pal Assyrian Athens Australia Babylonia bas-reliefs belong Birds British Museum bronze bust Camirus casts Catalogue chariot chiefly coffin collection colossal colours Compartment contain crystallised crystals Cyrene decorated discovered dynasty edifice Egypt Egyptian engraved Etruscan exhibited female fish fossil fragments frieze fruit Full Face Gallery glass Greek head India inscribed inscriptions Insects Islands Karnak king Kouyunjik Krater Layard lions Lower Shelf Lycian male figure marble Middle Shelf minerals monarch monuments mummies Nimroud North objects occupied Oolitic ornaments orthorhombic oxide painted Parthenon period placed Plates portion principal probably Rameses II relief remains remarkable representing Roman sarcophagus Satyrs sculptures Sennacherib sepulchral shells shelves side silicate skeleton slabs South America species specimens statue stems stone Table tablets temple terracotta tomb torso trees Upper Shelf various vases Wall
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Page 142 - Inscriptions in the Phoenician Character, discovered on the site of Carthage, during Researches by Nathan Davis, Esq., 1856-58. 1863, fol. £1 5*.
Page 24 - Hudson, from an original by Richardson. Oliver Cromwell, by Walker (bequeathed, 1784, by Sir Robert Rich, Bart., to whose great-grandfather, Nathaniel Rich, Esq., then serving as a Colonel of Horse in the Parliament Army, it was presented by Cromwell himself). Mary Davis, an inhabitant of Great Saughall in Cheshire, taken 1668, "cetatis 74...
Page 82 - Mausolos was of the class called by the Greeks heroon, and so greatly excelled all other sepulchral monuments in size, beauty of design, and richness of decoration, that it was reckoned one of the Seven Wonders of the ancient world, and the name Mausoleum came to be applied to all similar monuments.
Page 94 - Part of a series of sculptures which originally lined the two walls of a long narrow gallery leading, by an inclined plane, from Kouyunjik towards the Tigris. On the one side, descending the slope, were fourteen horses, led by grooms ; on the other, ascending into the palace, were servitors bearing food for a hanquet.
Page 136 - Pelion, and Thetis consenting to be the bride of Peleus, in the presence of Poseidon and Eros. On the bottom of the vase, which is detached, is a bust of Atys.
Page 16 - ... nests of wasps and bees ; some are constructed of clay, or of sand, while others are of paper, made of an admixture of the scrapings of wood and vegetable fibre. Specimens of the various insect fabricators of these structures are, in many instances, attached to the nests. In another case we find the remains of the square lintel of a door of one of the government offices in St. Helena, showing the destruction caused by a species of white ant. Then there are a series of the different stages of...
Page 106 - Rosetta stone ; it is a tablet of black basalt, having three inscriptions, two of them in the Egyptian language, but in two different characters (Hieroglyphic and Enchorial), the third in Greek. The inscriptions are to the same purport in each, being a decree of the priesthood at Memphis in honour of Ptolemy Epiphanes about the year BC 196.