The Penny Cyclopaedia of the Society for the Diffussion of Useful Knowledge, 9. köideCharles Knight, 1838 |
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Page 49
... Royal Society , ' London , folio , 1681 ) , at p . 68 , thus describes the bird which is the subject of our inquiry . The leg of a Dodo ; called Cygnus cucullatus by Nierem- bergius ; by Clusius , Gallus gallinaceus peregrinus ; by ...
... Royal Society , ' London , folio , 1681 ) , at p . 68 , thus describes the bird which is the subject of our inquiry . The leg of a Dodo ; called Cygnus cucullatus by Nierem- bergius ; by Clusius , Gallus gallinaceus peregrinus ; by ...
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... Royal Society , and that it was bought at his sale by Edwards , who , after pub- lishing a plate from it in his Gleanings , presented it to the Royal Society , whence it passed , as well as the foot , into the British Museum . But Mr ...
... Royal Society , and that it was bought at his sale by Edwards , who , after pub- lishing a plate from it in his Gleanings , presented it to the Royal Society , whence it passed , as well as the foot , into the British Museum . But Mr ...
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... Royal Society when Tradescant's ' Dodar ' was complete . In the An- nales des Sciences ' ( tome xxi . p . 103 , Sept. 1830 ) will be found an account of an assemblage of fossil bones , then recently discovered , under a bed of lava , in ...
... Royal Society when Tradescant's ' Dodar ' was complete . In the An- nales des Sciences ' ( tome xxi . p . 103 , Sept. 1830 ) will be found an account of an assemblage of fossil bones , then recently discovered , under a bed of lava , in ...
Page 54
... Royal Society ) and a head and foot , said to have belonged to a specimen which was formerly in Tradescant's Museum , but is now in the Ashmolean Museum at Oxford . The cast of the head above mentioned ( in the same case ) was presented ...
... Royal Society ) and a head and foot , said to have belonged to a specimen which was formerly in Tradescant's Museum , but is now in the Ashmolean Museum at Oxford . The cast of the head above mentioned ( in the same case ) was presented ...
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... Royal Asiatic Society . ' ) Mr. Hodgson , in a paper ' On the Mammalia of Nepal , published in the Journal of the Asiatic Society of Cal- cutta , ' mentions , inter alia , under the title of Canis fami- liaris , Linn . , the Pariah as ...
... Royal Asiatic Society . ' ) Mr. Hodgson , in a paper ' On the Mammalia of Nepal , published in the Journal of the Asiatic Society of Cal- cutta , ' mentions , inter alia , under the title of Canis fami- liaris , Linn . , the Pariah as ...
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