A Guide to the Exhibition Rooms of the Departments of Natural History and Antiquitiesorder of the Trustees, 1877 - 156 pages |
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... wood- engravings . * . BRITISH MUSEUM , February 1st , 1877 . J. WINTER JONES , Principal Librarian . * See the parts relating to the Egyptian Galleries , Vestibule ( price 2d . ) ; the First and Second Egyptian Rooms , and the Græco ...
... wood- engravings . * . BRITISH MUSEUM , February 1st , 1877 . J. WINTER JONES , Principal Librarian . * See the parts relating to the Egyptian Galleries , Vestibule ( price 2d . ) ; the First and Second Egyptian Rooms , and the Græco ...
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... Wood Antelopes , with short horns often concealed amongst a brush of hairs ; the Chickara of India , with four little horns . ( Case 12. ) North America and Europe have each a single species , viz . , the Prong - buck of the United ...
... Wood Antelopes , with short horns often concealed amongst a brush of hairs ; the Chickara of India , with four little horns . ( Case 12. ) North America and Europe have each a single species , viz . , the Prong - buck of the United ...
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... woods in the tropics , particularly of the New World ; one of the most conspicuous is the long - feathered Quezal , a sacred bird of the ancient Peruvians . Cases 41 , 42. The Kingfishers , large - billed birds with short tails , living ...
... woods in the tropics , particularly of the New World ; one of the most conspicuous is the long - feathered Quezal , a sacred bird of the ancient Peruvians . Cases 41 , 42. The Kingfishers , large - billed birds with short tails , living ...
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... Wood Warblers . Cases 53-55 . The Thrushes : some of these have long legs and short tails , such as the tropical Ant - Thrushes ; many have brilliant plumage ; others of more sombre plumage inhabit Europe and the temperate parts of the ...
... Wood Warblers . Cases 53-55 . The Thrushes : some of these have long legs and short tails , such as the tropical Ant - Thrushes ; many have brilliant plumage ; others of more sombre plumage inhabit Europe and the temperate parts of the ...
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... woods ; the Fire - backed Pheasant , and the Horned Pheasants of North India , with their fine painted faces . Cases 99 , 100. Turkeys and Guinea - fowl ; the most conspicuous is the Ocellated Turkey of Honduras and Vulturine Pintado ...
... woods ; the Fire - backed Pheasant , and the Horned Pheasants of North India , with their fine painted faces . Cases 99 , 100. Turkeys and Guinea - fowl ; the most conspicuous is the Ocellated Turkey of Honduras and Vulturine Pintado ...
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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.