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Extinct animals

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  • The male and female Irish elk (Cervus megaceros), now extinct. Reproduction of a painting by J Smith.
  • Three papaya trees (Carica papaya) with lizards, dodos and a man hunting in an exotic, tropical landscape. Etching, c. 1671.
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    Three papaya trees (Carica papaya) with lizards, dodos and a man hunting in an exotic, tropical landscape. Etching, c. 1671.

    | Date: [1671] | Reference: 24654i
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    Awaiting an epiphany.

    Kortza, Helenitsa | Date: [2011?]
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    British animals extinct within historic times : with some account of British wild white cattle / by James Edmund Harting ; with illustrations by J. Wolf, C. Whymper, R.W. Sherwin, and others.

    Harting James Edmund, 1841-1928. | Date: 1880
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    The male and female Irish elk (Cervus megaceros), now extinct. Reproduction of a painting by J Smith.

    Smith, John Henry, active 1852-1893. | Reference: 39803i
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    Introduction and succession of vertebrate life in America : An address delivered before the American Association for the Advancement of Science, at Nashville, Tenn, August 30, 1877 / by Professor O.C. Marsh.

    Marsh, Othniel Charles, 1831-1899. | Date: [1878?]
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