Thick-skinned QuadrupedsW.H. Lizars, 1856 - 248 páginas |
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Africa ancient animal appearance appointed attack Babiroussa back teeth birds body bones bristles Cadogan Cape CAPE HYRAX catalogues Chelsea COLLARED PECCARY collection colour contained covered creatures curious Cuvier ears Elephant executors exhibit eyes farther fawn colour feet fish flesh folds forests fossil Fred frequently garden hair head herbs herd hereby Hippopotamus History of Jamaica honour horn hundred hunted Hyrax immense inches incisors Indian INDIAN RHINOCEROS inhabiting insects Islands ivory Jamaica legs length living London lower jaw mahout Mammoth manor Mastodon medals mentioned museum natives Natural History nearly neck Pachydermes PECCARY persons Petersburgh physician plants PLATE Plukenet proboscidean quadrupeds remarkable Rhinoceros roots round Royal Society seen shewed Siberia side Sir Hans Sloane skin skull species specimen SUMATRAN RHINOCEROS tail Tapir thick tion trees trustees Tungusian tusks upper vegetables visiters voyage Wart Hog Wild Boar
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Página 87 - President, Council, and Fellows of the Royal Society of London, for improving Natural Knowledge.
Página 75 - Counsellors. Chancellor of the Exchequer. Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster. Lord Chief Justice of the King's Bench. Master of the Rolls. Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas. Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer.
Página 23 - Some have complained that inscriptions on tomb-stones convey no general information, except that individuals were born and died — accidents which happen alike to all men. But the death of a species is so remarkable an event in natural history, that it deserves commemoration ; and it is with no small interest that we learn from the archives of the University of Oxford, the exact day and year when the remains of the last specimen of the Dodo, which had been permitted to rot in the Ashmolean Museum,...
Página 141 - Elephant's bones and tusks, we found throughout Russia, and more particularly in Eastern Siberia and the Arctic marshes. The tusks are found in great quantities, and are collected for the sake of profit, being sold to the turners in the place of the living ivory of Africa, and the warmer parts of Asia, to which it is not at all inferior.
Página 150 - He next detached the skin on the side on which the animal had lain, which was well preserved ; the weight of the skin was such, that ten persons found great difficulty in transporting it to the shore. After this, the ground was...
Página 71 - In memory of Sir Hans Sloane, Bart., President of the Royal Society and of the College of Physicians, who died in the year of our Lord 1753, the ninety-second year of his age, without the least pain of body, and with a conscious serenity of mind ended a virtuous and beneficent life. This monument was erected by his two daughters, Elizabeth Cadogan and Sarah Stanley.
Página 74 - for the purchase of the Museum, or Collection of Sir Hans Sloane, and of the Harleian Collection of Manuscripts ; and for providing one General Repository for the better reception and more convenient use of the said collections ; and of the Cottonian Library, and of the additions thereto.
Página 23 - The discovery of America, and that of a passage to the East Indies by the Cape of Good Hope, are the two greatest and most important events recorded in the history of mankind.
Página 26 - ... of birds, fish, flowers, and shells, drawn and miniatured to the life. He told us that one book ' stood him in .£300 ; it was painted by that excellent workman whom the late Gaston Duke of Orleans emploied. This gentleman's whole collection, gatherM by himselfe travelling over most parts of Europe, is estimated at .£8000. He appear"d to be a modest and obliging person '. 29.
Página 89 - God and good of man, my collection in all its branches may be, if possible, kept and preserved together whole and entire, in my manor house, in the parish of Chelsea, situate near the Physic Garden, given by me to the Company of Apothecaries, for the same purposes...