A Guide to the Exhibition Rooms of the Departments of Natural History and Antiquitiesorder of the Trustees, 1877 - 156 pages |
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... plate of teeth in the gullet . Those living in the sea are distinguished by their vivid changeable colours ; some of them are called Parrot - fishes ( Scarus , Pseudoscarus ) , from their bony jaws , which resemble a parrot's beak , and ...
... plate of teeth in the gullet . Those living in the sea are distinguished by their vivid changeable colours ; some of them are called Parrot - fishes ( Scarus , Pseudoscarus ) , from their bony jaws , which resemble a parrot's beak , and ...
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... plates , was convex above , and flat beneath ; the pectoral fins were represented by large bony appendages , situated close behind the head ; and the tail was tolerably long , tapering , and furnished with small scales . The second ...
... plates , was convex above , and flat beneath ; the pectoral fins were represented by large bony appendages , situated close behind the head ; and the tail was tolerably long , tapering , and furnished with small scales . The second ...
Page 42
... plates cemented together , each plate being enclosed by enamel ; the enamel being con- siderably harder than the other substances which compose the tooth , wears less readily , and hence projects in the form of transverse ridges on the ...
... plates cemented together , each plate being enclosed by enamel ; the enamel being con- siderably harder than the other substances which compose the tooth , wears less readily , and hence projects in the form of transverse ridges on the ...
Page 119
... plate , and are frequently massive , and richly gilt and enamelled . One of the largest examples in the collection is a covered standing cup , with gilt ribs ( No. 362 ) . Two of the earliest , and also most elaborate speci- mens , are ...
... plate , and are frequently massive , and richly gilt and enamelled . One of the largest examples in the collection is a covered standing cup , with gilt ribs ( No. 362 ) . Two of the earliest , and also most elaborate speci- mens , are ...
Page 126
... plates , rhytons , and vases for the toilet , moulded in the form of animals and human figures . Table Case D. A collection of objects in bone and ivory , such as caskets , gladiatorial tessera , tickets for the theatre , dice ; a lyre ...
... plates , rhytons , and vases for the toilet , moulded in the form of animals and human figures . Table Case D. A collection of objects in bone and ivory , such as caskets , gladiatorial tessera , tickets for the theatre , dice ; a lyre ...
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Africa ancient animals Antiquities arranged Asia Assur-bani-pal Assyrian Athens Australia bas-reliefs belonging Birds Bony Pikes British Museum bronze bust called casts Chalybite chariot chiefly collection colossal colours Compartment contains specimens Corals crystallised crystals Cyrene Devonian Dicotyledonous discovered division edifice Egyptian Eningen exhibited extinct Farnese Palace feed feet female figures fish Fossil fragments frieze fruit Gallery gigantic glass Greek head Iguanodon India inscribed inscriptions insects iron Islands king Kouyunjik lions living lower Lycian male marble Mastodon metals minerals monuments Nimroud North occupied Oolitic ornaments orthorhombic oxide Parthenon placed plants portion Presented by Dr probably quadrupeds relief remains remarkable representing reptile rhombohedral rocks Roman Saloon sculptures Sennacherib Shelf shells shelves side silicates skeleton slabs South America species statue stems stone sulphide Table tail teeth temple terracotta Tertiary tomb torso trees tribe tropical upper various vases Wall
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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.