Catalogue of the principal objects of curiosity contained in the London Museum, and Institute of Natural History, Catherine Street, Strand / [Anon. By Edward Donovan?].

  • Edward Donovan
Date:
1808
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Credit: Catalogue of the principal objects of curiosity contained in the London Museum, and Institute of Natural History, Catherine Street, Strand / [Anon. By Edward Donovan?]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    BRITISH QUADRUPEDS. 1 6. LONG EARED BAT. Rather fcarce in England. 7. GREAT BAT. Rare. 8. COMMON BAT. 9. HORSE-SHOE BAT. So named from the very Angular form of its nofe, which bears a ftrong fefemblance to a-horfe-fhoe. This is a fcarce, or at lead very local kind of Bat. They were formerly found in great numbers in the falt-petre works belonging to the powder-mills at Dartford, in Kent. 10. SMALL HORSE-SHOE BAT. Defcribed by G. Montagu, Efq. as a new fpecies, in the Tranfaclions of the Linnaean Society of London. The fpecimen in this Mufeum was taken in Devonfhire. Mr. Donovan lately difcovered this kind of Bat lurking among the ivy that overhangs the mouldering bat- tlements of Ragland Caftle, Monmouthfhire. 11. COMMON SEAL, Or, as it is fometimes called by filhermen, the Sea Calf. This fpecies commonly inhabits the northern coads of Britain. 12. GREAT SEAL, Defcribed by Dr. Parfons in the TranfaTions of the Royal Society. This is an animal of confiderable magnitude, and appears to be common only on the fhores of the wedern ides of Scotland, efpecially about the Hilkyr rock. *Mr. Pennant informs us, in his Tour to the H brides, that ne heard of this fpecies, but did not meet with it, and we therefore conclude it mud be rare. One of the largefl individuals of this kind on record was killed on the Scottilh coaft ; it meafured twelve feet in length. The fpecimen, No. it, preferved in this Mufeum, is of a large fi'ze. 13. DOG, With a fuite of charafteridic and appropriate figures to illuftrate the ^ more intereding varieties of that faithful domedic. Among others, the Irifh Wolf Dog, which has been defcribed. with fo much accuracy by A. B. Lambert, Efq. in the Traefaftions of the Linnasan Society, de- ferves particular attention. 34. WOLF. Slunk from the cavern and the troubled wood See the grim wolf! Thompfon. Happily thofe rapacious creatures, once the fconrge and terror oi the country, exift no longer in a date of nature in Britain. For ages they remained the unfcontfouled inhabitants ot ourforefts, and native deferts, and it was only within the lad few centuries that they were wholly ex- tirpated- In the time of the Saxons, wolves abounded in this lfland, as appears from many unqucftionable traits of hidory. Io the F°“^. i
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