Catalogue of the Hunterian Collection in the Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons in London: The human and comparative osteologyR. Taylor, 1831 |
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adult African Wild Boar alveolar cavity animal Antilope Babyroussa Bart Brit Brookes Buceros Buff Canis Cape Cervus Clift Cline Colonel Finch Cranium Crocodilus Cuvier Delphinus du Mus Elephas Indicus Ency Equus Caballus Fallow-deer Felis Felis Tigris Fig.-Bloch Fig.-Buff Fig.-Cuv Fig.-Shaw Fig.-Will Foss Genus Habitat Habitat.-Europe Habitat.-South America Habitat.-The Henderson Henry Cline Henry Salt Himalayan Mountains Hippopotamus Hist Home Hunterian Incisores Incisores Cuspidati Molares Indian Rhinoceros inferior pharyngeal bones Island Kanguroo late H late Sir T. S. Leach left side longitudinal section lower jaw male Rein-deer Méthod Mustela Northern Expedition penis Phoca Phoca leonina portion Presented by Lieut Presented by Sir Presented by W. H. right side rostrum Schreb Shaw Shell Sir T. S. Raffles Skeleton Skull skull and horns Sparus species specimen Squalus Sub-Genus Supp teeth Testudo Tortoise Trichechus Trichechus Rosmarus tusk upper jaw Ursus Vide Hunter Walrus Zool
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Página 156 - ... out by the author solely for the exercise of his own ingenuity. I should not venture to speak so positively upon this matter, had I not indisputably ascertained the facts : for the Ras having subsequently made me a present of three of these animals alive, I found them not only in excellent health, but so exceedingly wild, that I was obliged to have them shot. The horns of one of these are now deposited in the museum of the Surgeons' College ; and a still larger pair are placed in the collection...
Página 156 - extending of the disorder to the spine of the " ' neck, which at last becomes callous, so that it is not any longer in " ' the power of the animal to lift its head...
Página 155 - Abyssinia,' at p. 258, 4to edit. 1844, where he observes: " There (Gibba) for the first time I was gratified by the sight of the Galla Oxen, or Sanga, celebrated throughout Abyssinia for the remarkable size of their horns. Three of these animals were grazing among the other cattle in perfect health, which circumstance, together with the testimony of the natives, ' that the size of the horn is in no instance occasioned by disease,' completely refutes the fanciful theory given by Mr.
Página 1 - Our philosophical readers may not be displeased to know, on the credit of an ingenious correspondent, who had opportunity of informing himself, that Mr Byrne, in August 1780, measured eight feet; that in 1782 he had gained two inches, and after he was dead he measured eight feet four inches. " Neither his father, mother, brother, nor any other person of his family, was of an extraordinary size.
Página 156 - Col~ lege, and a still larger pair are placed in the collection of Lord Valentia, at Arley Hall. The length of the largest horn of this description which I met with was nearly four feet, and its circumference at the base, twenty-one inches. It might have been expected, that the animal, carrying horns of so extraordinary a magnitude...
Página 1 - In Cockspur Street, Charing Cross, aged only twenty-two, Mr Charles Byrne, the famous Irish g;iant, whose death is said to have been precipitated by excessive drinking, to which he was always addicted, but more particularly since his late loss of almost all his property, which he had simply invested in a single bank-note of £700.
Página 155 - ... completely refutes the fanciful theory given by Mr. Bruce respecting this creature. It appears by the papers annexed to the last edition of Mr. Bruce's work, that he never met with the Sanga ; but that he made many attempts to procure specimens of the horns, through Yanni, a Greek, residing at Adowa. This old man very correctly speaks of them> in his letters, as being...
Página 27 - An Essay on the Structure and Formation of the Teeth in Man and Various Animals.
Página 3 - On comparing the ovaria with those of an abortion at three months, " they were nearly of the same size. The child when I saw it could " walk alone, but with no confidence. Its sight was very quick, much " attracted by bright objects, delighted with every thing that glittered, " mightily pleased with fine clothes, had a shrill voice, and spoke in a " low tone ; had some taste for music, but could speak few words of " English ; was very sensible of kindness, and quickly recognised any " person who...
Página 5 - ... metopic cranium. 0. C. 5723. $. C. 520, L. 184, B. 136, Bi. 739, H. 127, Hi. 690, BN. 90, Nh. 52, Nw. 20, Ni. 386, Ow. 36, Oh. 35, Oi. 972, Ca. 1410. Presented by Dr. Leach, 1827. * These were probably selected on that account. In the edition of the Catalogue of 1831 the following passage occurs : — " It was a curious remark made by Dr. Leach, and others who have examined that immense collection of crania and other bones in the catacombs at Paris, that the number of adult skulls in which the...