A Guide to the Exhibition Rooms of the Departments of Natural History and Antiquitiesorder of the Trustees, 1877 - 156 pages |
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... importance , and increased room being indispensable for the exhibition of those marbles , a temporary shelter was prepared for them . This was the last addition to Montague House . When , in 1823 , the library collected by George III ...
... importance , and increased room being indispensable for the exhibition of those marbles , a temporary shelter was prepared for them . This was the last addition to Montague House . When , in 1823 , the library collected by George III ...
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... important to commerce as the Right Whale of the Nor- thern Hemisphere ; it is a young individual , not quite half grown . Further , a skeleton of the Bottle - nosed Dolphin ( Delphinus tursio ) , of which a large shoal was taken near ...
... important to commerce as the Right Whale of the Nor- thern Hemisphere ; it is a young individual , not quite half grown . Further , a skeleton of the Bottle - nosed Dolphin ( Delphinus tursio ) , of which a large shoal was taken near ...
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... important article of food to navigators in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries during the protracted and tedious voyages across the Indian and Pacific Oceans , but are now almost extinct . SECOND ROOM . The WALL CASES contain the ...
... important article of food to navigators in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries during the protracted and tedious voyages across the Indian and Pacific Oceans , but are now almost extinct . SECOND ROOM . The WALL CASES contain the ...
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... important fishes on the Cape of Good Hope and in other parts of the South Pacific , where large quantities are dried for exdortation . Case 6 : the Gurnards ( Trigla ) , the Flying Gurnards ( Dactylopterus ) . Case 7 ; the Maigre Tribe ...
... important fishes on the Cape of Good Hope and in other parts of the South Pacific , where large quantities are dried for exdortation . Case 6 : the Gurnards ( Trigla ) , the Flying Gurnards ( Dactylopterus ) . Case 7 ; the Maigre Tribe ...
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... important sections - the Ctenoids and the Cycloids . The Ctenoids , which are distinguished by their scales being serrated , or finely notched at the free edge , are arranged in compartments 23 to 26 : the common Perch is a good example ...
... important sections - the Ctenoids and the Cycloids . The Ctenoids , which are distinguished by their scales being serrated , or finely notched at the free edge , are arranged in compartments 23 to 26 : the common Perch is a good example ...
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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.