A Guide to the Exhibition Rooms of the Departments of Natural History and Antiquitiesorder of the Trustees, 1877 - 156 pages |
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... belong the Gorilla and Chimpanzee , inhabitants of the forests of Western and Central Africa ; and the two kinds of Orang from Borneo and Sumatra . These animals live chiefly on fruits , but possess an extraordinary strength , which ...
... belong the Gorilla and Chimpanzee , inhabitants of the forests of Western and Central Africa ; and the two kinds of Orang from Borneo and Sumatra . These animals live chiefly on fruits , but possess an extraordinary strength , which ...
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... belonging to a specimen which was formerly contained in Tradescant's Museum at Lambeth , and also various models of head , skulls , and bones of the foot . An oil- painting of this remarkable bird is hung in the wall case 108 , which is ...
... belonging to a specimen which was formerly contained in Tradescant's Museum at Lambeth , and also various models of head , skulls , and bones of the foot . An oil- painting of this remarkable bird is hung in the wall case 108 , which is ...
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... belong the Mackarel , Tunny , Bonite , the Sucker ( Echeneis ) , which attaches itself by means of a sucker on the head to ships , sharks , turtles , etc. , the John Dorees ( Zeus ) , the Dolphins ( Coryphana ) , the Pilot ( Naucrates ) ...
... belong the Mackarel , Tunny , Bonite , the Sucker ( Echeneis ) , which attaches itself by means of a sucker on the head to ships , sharks , turtles , etc. , the John Dorees ( Zeus ) , the Dolphins ( Coryphana ) , the Pilot ( Naucrates ) ...
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... belong to an extensive class of mostly microscopic beings . • ALBERT GÜNTHER . LIST OF PORTRAITS SUSPENDED ON THE WALLS OF THIS GALLERY 24 [ UPPER ZOOLOGICAL COLLECTIONS . Fifth Room (Ganoid and Cartilaginous Fishes-Sponges) •
... belong to an extensive class of mostly microscopic beings . • ALBERT GÜNTHER . LIST OF PORTRAITS SUSPENDED ON THE WALLS OF THIS GALLERY 24 [ UPPER ZOOLOGICAL COLLECTIONS . Fifth Room (Ganoid and Cartilaginous Fishes-Sponges) •
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... belonging to this series will be found in the Table Cases under the windows . In the Lobby , between the Bird Gallery and the Gallery of Minerals and Fossils , is a restored model of the shell of an extinct Fossil Tortoise , of gigantic ...
... belonging to this series will be found in the Table Cases under the windows . In the Lobby , between the Bird Gallery and the Gallery of Minerals and Fossils , is a restored model of the shell of an extinct Fossil Tortoise , of gigantic ...
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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.