The Museum of Joshua Brookes, Esq. ... consists of a collection of anatomical and zoological preparations ... / [Brookesean Museum].

  • Brookesean Museum.
Date:
1827
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Credit: The Museum of Joshua Brookes, Esq. ... consists of a collection of anatomical and zoological preparations ... / [Brookesean Museum]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    wax ; likewise a splendid collection of Feet, also having both the arteries and veins injected, and a multitude of various Calculi, Intestinal, Vesi- cal, and Renal, one of the Vesical is of great size and weight. ORDER, Cetacea. Most of the Genera, amongst w hich are several fine Skeletons ; there are three Whales, two young stuffed, and a Foetus in spirits of the Balsena Mysticetus, all of different Genera. Two Narwhals, one of an adult, a Skeleton, the other a Foetus in spirits, also the Crania of two more adults, one unique, having two long tusks. The Jaws of several adult Cachalots, some replete with teeth, (of different species). The Skeleton of a Grampus and Porpoise, an injected ditto, many fine Crania of the Genera Delphinus and Phoccena, as well as a superb Cranium of a Dugong, and the inferior Maxillary Bone of another of the same family, also the Tusks of a third. Amongst the above there is a very fine cranium of the Delphinus globice])s, and leucas, etc. &c. CLASS, MONOTREMATA. BrOokes. ORDER, Azygi. Brookes. Genus Ornithorynchus. Two Skeletons and a stuffed animal. Genus Echidna. A stuffed specimen, and a Skeleton in hand.