A Guide to the Exhibition Rooms of the Departments of Natural History and Antiquitiesorder of the Trustees, 1877 - 156 pages |
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... Africa - China , Japan , and the Asiatic Islands - India , Birmah , and Java - North - west Coast of America North America and West Indies - Mexico - Ancient Peru , & c . -South America - New Zealand - Samoa and Tonga Islands ...
... Africa - China , Japan , and the Asiatic Islands - India , Birmah , and Java - North - west Coast of America North America and West Indies - Mexico - Ancient Peru , & c . -South America - New Zealand - Samoa and Tonga Islands ...
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... Africa ; the Morse or Walrus from the Arctic Ocean ; the Indian Rhinoceros , with a single horn on the nose , and with its thick hide in deep folds ; different species of the African Rhinoceros , all of * For a more detailed and ...
... Africa ; the Morse or Walrus from the Arctic Ocean ; the Indian Rhinoceros , with a single horn on the nose , and with its thick hide in deep folds ; different species of the African Rhinoceros , all of * For a more detailed and ...
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... Africa ; and the two kinds of Orang from Borneo and Sumatra . These animals live chiefly on fruits , but possess an extraordinary strength , which they well know how to use when attacked . Over the Cases containing the Antelopes and ...
... Africa ; and the two kinds of Orang from Borneo and Sumatra . These animals live chiefly on fruits , but possess an extraordinary strength , which they well know how to use when attacked . Over the Cases containing the Antelopes and ...
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... Africa , in the islands of the Indian Archipelago and the Pacific , and in Australia , where some of them live in large flocks . The Horse - shoe Bats and Leaf - nosed Bats have very peculiar physio- gnomies , from the complicated ...
... Africa , in the islands of the Indian Archipelago and the Pacific , and in Australia , where some of them live in large flocks . The Horse - shoe Bats and Leaf - nosed Bats have very peculiar physio- gnomies , from the complicated ...
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... Africa , with very long claws , which are turned in when they walk ; the burrowing Armadilloes of South America , which , when danger threatens , can roll themselves into a ball , covered with jointed mail , whence they have derived ...
... Africa , with very long claws , which are turned in when they walk ; the burrowing Armadilloes of South America , which , when danger threatens , can roll themselves into a ball , covered with jointed mail , whence they have derived ...
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Page 25 - 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 144 - Inscriptions in the Phoenician Character, discovered on the site of Carthage, during Researches by Nathan Davis, Esq., 1856-58. 1863, fol. £1 5*.
Page 95 - 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.
Page 96 - The next six (Nos. 51-56) formed originally part of a series illustrating the architectural works of that king, including, probably, the construction of the very edifice from which the slabs were obtained. On Nos. 51 and 52 is seen the conveyance of a colossal human-headed bull, lying sideways on a sledge, which is propelled, over wooden rollers, partly by ropes in front, partly by a lever behind. On one side...
Page 83 - 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 138 - 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.