Kalm's account of his visit to England : on his way to America in 1748 / translated by Joseph Lucas ; with two maps and several illustrations.

  • Pehr Kalm
Date:
1892
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Credit: Kalm's account of his visit to England : on his way to America in 1748 / translated by Joseph Lucas ; with two maps and several illustrations. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    or other injurious insect could get at them, and spoil them [T. I. p. 433.] The sides were of wood. In some both lid and bottom, låcket och botten, were of a very clear glass, but in most only the lid. At the joints the glass was stuck or glued fast with paper. Where the bottom was of glass, the insect was gummed on to the middle of the bottom. [T. I. p. 377.] Some of the East and West Indian Butterflies, Fiärilar, were far more showy than a peacock with his matchless variety of colours. A very large number of all kinds of corals and other harder sea plants, Sjö växter, a multitude of various sorts of crystals, several head-dresses of different races of men, musical instru- ments, &c. Various stuffed birds and fish, where the birds, Foglarna, often stood fast on small bits of board as nciturella as if they still lived. Skeletons of various four-footed beasts, among which we particularly noticed that of a young elephant, the stuffed skin of a Camel, and an African many-striped ass, mängrandig Asna. Several human skeletons larger and smaller, the head and other parts of a frightfully large whale [T. I. p. 438.] This Hvalfisk was said to have been 90 feet long. The length of its head bone was nearly 18 feet [T. I. p. 377.] Honungs-fogeln, humming birds from the West Indies, which there made a show with their many colours, and sat in their nest under glass as though they had been living; the bird’s-nest, Fogel-bo, which they eat in Asia as any other food ; [T. I. p. 431] which they eat in the East Indies. It was white, and looked almost as if it had been made of white wax [T. I. p. 377.] A great collection of snakes, lizards, fishes, birds, caterpillars, insects, small four-footed animals [various anatomical specimens] etc. all put in spiritu vini in bottles, and well preserved ; dried skins of snakes from the East and West Indies, of many ells length and proportionately broad ;
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