Showing posts with label skull. Show all posts
Showing posts with label skull. Show all posts

Tuesday, June 17, 2014

Cannon, Bell, & Bones Brought Up From the Wreck of the Hussar (1873)

Frank B. Goodrich and Edward Howland. Ocean's Story; Or, Triumphs of Thirty Centuries; A Graphic Description of Maritime Adventures, Achievements, Explorations, Discoveries, and Inventions: And of the Rise and Progress of Ship-Building and Ocean Navigation from the Ark to the Iron Steamships, with an Account of Adventures Beneath the Sea: Diving, Dredging, Deep Sea Sounding, Latest Submarine Explorations, &c.&c., Prepared with Great Care. (Philadelphia: Hubbard Brothers, 1873).

Wednesday, October 24, 2012

Ready for Mounting (1884)

Montagu Browne. Practical Taxidermy: Manual of Instruction to the Amateur in Collecting, Preserving, and Setting Up Natural History Specimens of All Kinds to which is Added a Chapter upon the Pictorial Arrangement of Museums. (London: L. Upcott Gill, 1884).

Friday, October 12, 2012

The Pekinese Spaniel (1867/1908)

Side and front views of the skull of the Pekinese Spaniel
A Guide to the Domesticated Animals  (Other Than Horses) Exhibited in the Central and North Halls of the British Museum. (London: The Trustees of the British Museum, 1908).

Monday, October 8, 2012

Pachydermata Variation (1840)

Teeth of hippopotamus
William Charles L. Martin. A Natural History of Quadrupeds, and other Mammiferous Animals. Illustrations by William Harvey. (London: Whitehead and Company, 1840).

Monday, October 1, 2012

Salmon Skull, Lateral View (1897)

Lateral view of the skull of a salmon (Salmo salar)
Sydney H. Reynolds. The Vertebrate Skeleton. (Cambridge: University Press, 1897).