A Guide to the Exhibition Rooms of the Departments of Natural History and Antiquitiesorder of the Trustees, 1877 - 156 pages |
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... half . However , its capture is attended with great danger , as one blow from its enormously strong tail is sufficient to stave in the sides of a large boat . Cases 1 and 2 , 31 and 32. The Llamas , used as beasts of burden in the Andes ...
... half . However , its capture is attended with great danger , as one blow from its enormously strong tail is sufficient to stave in the sides of a large boat . Cases 1 and 2 , 31 and 32. The Llamas , used as beasts of burden in the Andes ...
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... half grown . Further , a skeleton of the Bottle - nosed Dolphin ( Delphinus tursio ) , of which a large shoal was taken near Holyhead in 1866 ; of the Narwhal ( Monodon monoceros ) , one of the most singular animals of the whale - tribe ...
... half grown . Further , a skeleton of the Bottle - nosed Dolphin ( Delphinus tursio ) , of which a large shoal was taken near Holyhead in 1866 ; of the Narwhal ( Monodon monoceros ) , one of the most singular animals of the whale - tribe ...
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... Half length . " Step " . Slaughter pinx . 1736. " 32. SIR HANS SLOANE , whole length , seated . 33. DR . JOHN WARD , of Gresham College . Presented by T. Hoilis , Esq . 34. CLAUDIUS JAMES RICH , Esq . , born 1787 , died at Shiraz , 1821 ...
... Half length . " Step " . Slaughter pinx . 1736. " 32. SIR HANS SLOANE , whole length , seated . 33. DR . JOHN WARD , of Gresham College . Presented by T. Hoilis , Esq . 34. CLAUDIUS JAMES RICH , Esq . , born 1787 , died at Shiraz , 1821 ...
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... half of Case 14 , Room V. , is occupied with examples of the tubes , or shells , of fossil Annelids ( Serpula ) . One species , known as the Vermicularia Bognoriensis , makes an almost regularly convoluted tube , like a snail - shell ...
... half of Case 14 , Room V. , is occupied with examples of the tubes , or shells , of fossil Annelids ( Serpula ) . One species , known as the Vermicularia Bognoriensis , makes an almost regularly convoluted tube , like a snail - shell ...
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... half are still existing , either in British Seas , in the Mediterranean , or on the coasts of Norway and North America . And in part of Table Case 11 is exhibited a collection of Lithodomous Mollusca , with their crypts or cells : they ...
... half are still existing , either in British Seas , in the Mediterranean , or on the coasts of Norway and North America . And in part of Table Case 11 is exhibited a collection of Lithodomous Mollusca , with their crypts or cells : they ...
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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.