A Guide to the Exhibition Rooms of the Departments of Natural History and Antiquitiesorder of the Trustees, 1877 - 156 pages |
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... Leaf - nosed Bats have very peculiar physio- gnomies , from the complicated apparatus on the skin of the nose round the nostrils . Though the Bats are generally sombre - coloured , yet a few have brilliantly - coloured furs , such as ...
... Leaf - nosed Bats have very peculiar physio- gnomies , from the complicated apparatus on the skin of the nose round the nostrils . Though the Bats are generally sombre - coloured , yet a few have brilliantly - coloured furs , such as ...
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... leaves , which they stitch together ; the superb warblers and Emu Wren of Australia , and the Lyre - bird or Mænura of Australia , the largest of song birds . Case 49. The Warblers , birds of plain plumage , but famed for their ...
... leaves , which they stitch together ; the superb warblers and Emu Wren of Australia , and the Lyre - bird or Mænura of Australia , the largest of song birds . Case 49. The Warblers , birds of plain plumage , but famed for their ...
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... leaves of water plants ; the Screamers of South America , with spurs on their shoulders . Case 132. The Rails . Cases 133 , 134. The Gallinules , which live on the borders of rivers and lakes , and are excellent swimmers . In a glazed ...
... leaves of water plants ; the Screamers of South America , with spurs on their shoulders . Case 132. The Rails . Cases 133 , 134. The Gallinules , which live on the borders of rivers and lakes , and are excellent swimmers . In a glazed ...
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... leaves free , and sometimes a separate single siphonal opening , for the emission of the water , as the Mussels and Oysters , many of which secrete pearls ; the brightly - coloured Spondyli , or " Thorny Oysters , " with their rough ...
... leaves free , and sometimes a separate single siphonal opening , for the emission of the water , as the Mussels and Oysters , many of which secrete pearls ; the brightly - coloured Spondyli , or " Thorny Oysters , " with their rough ...
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... leaves ; the Bull - frogs of America , so called from their loud bellowing noise ; the horned Frogs of Brazil ; the Pipa of Brazil , which transfers the eggs into cells on the back of the female , where they are hatched , passing ...
... leaves ; the Bull - frogs of America , so called from their loud bellowing noise ; the horned Frogs of Brazil ; the Pipa of Brazil , which transfers the eggs into cells on the back of the female , where they are hatched , passing ...
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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.