A prodromus of a synopsis animalium, comprising a catalogue raisonné of the zootomical collection of Joshua Brookes Esq. ... and of the anatomical preparations ... including the large and interesting department of Natural History / [Brookesean Museum].

  • Brookesean Museum.
Date:
1828
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Credit: A prodromus of a synopsis animalium, comprising a catalogue raisonné of the zootomical collection of Joshua Brookes Esq. ... and of the anatomical preparations ... including the large and interesting department of Natural History / [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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    It is obvious that I have very briefly mentioned the various Preparations of the Human Body, indeed, almost in the aggregate, and I now proceed in a similar manner to those of the Mammalia and other classes, 8tc. of animals. The Zootomical Division, includes Skeletons of almost all the genera of the orders of the class Mammalia : the links of this ex- tensive animal concatenation where wanting, are supplied by the preserved skin, as in the Giraffe, or by the cranium. In addition, I may remark, that of some of the genera there are several species, and a few duplicates : exempli gratia : There are Skeletons of three Elephants, male and female, (Asiatics,) and one stuffed African Elephant; also two fine Crania of ditto, one of which is furnished with long tusks. Two Hippo- potami; one, a skeleton, is magnificent; the other, admirably stuffed: both are adults. There are also several fine Crania of Hippopotami, etc. &c. Two Rhinoceroses: the skeleton of one is of an old adult from Asia, having a superb horn; the other is a young double-horned African animal, stuffed. There are also specimens of double adult horns, many single ditto, and crania of both species. ORDER, Quadrumana. The Museum contains Skeletons of the rarest genera, viz.: the Orang Outang, Chimpanzee, Pongo, Ateles, Mycetes, Lar, Maimon, etc. 8tc.; as well as the Skeleton of an individual of nearly all the other genera; including Sapajous, Sanglins, Lemurs, Loris, Ga- lagos, etc. 8tc. ORDER, Pteroenta, Brookes, Cheiroptera. Cuv. Vesper- tilio. Linn. Section, Pleuroptera. Brookes. Genus, Galeopithecus. Colugo. A beautiful Skeleton of an adult animal; and a specimen of a young one, stuffed. Section, Cheiroptera. Brookes. In addition to several new genera of Bats, established by Doctor Leach, and described in the Linnean Transactions, there is, amongst other Skeletons, that of a Pteropus, 30 inches in length, from the tip of one wing to the extremity of the other.