Wednesday, October 10, 2012

Counterbalanced Cranium (1861)

Counterbalanced Cranium (Skeleton of the stag)
F. Rhymer Jones. The General Structure of the Animal Kingdom. 3rd. ed.  (London: John Van Voorst, 1861).

Tuesday, October 9, 2012

Alligator Limbs A & B (1897)

alligator limbs A & B
Syndey H. Reynolds. The Vertabrate Skeleton. (Cambridge: The University Press, 1897).

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).

Sunday, October 7, 2012

Manikin for Tiger (1900)

Manikin for tiger, first stage
William Temple Hornaday, William Jacob Holland. Taxidermy and Zoological Collecting, 7th ed. (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1900.)

Saturday, October 6, 2012

Left Half of the Skeleton (1897)

Left half of the skeleton, gallus bankiva var. domestica, The skull, vertebral column, and sternum are bisected in the median plane.
Sydney H. Reynolds. The Vertebrate Skeleton. (Cambridge: University Press, 1897).

Friday, October 5, 2012

Neither Hands Nor Talons (1854)

Skeleton of a Cobra
Richard Owen, The Principal Forms of the Skeleton and the Teeth (Philadelphia: Blanchard and Lea, 1854), 74.

Showing Method of Binding (1884)

Peregrine Falcon On Flight
Montagu Browne. Practical Taxidermy: A 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).

Thursday, October 4, 2012

Peculiar Modification (1891)

Peculiar modification
George Ricks. Natural History Object Lessons: A Manual for Teachers. (Boston: D.C. Heath & Company, 1891.

Tuesday, October 2, 2012

Uselessness of Small Variations (1900)

The alleged uselessness of small variations from chapter "Objections to the Darwinian Theory."
C.F. Marshall, ed. Lectures on the Darwinian Theory Delivered by the Late Arthur Milnes Marshall. (New York: The MacMillan Company, 1900.)

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).