Letters from Abraham Dee Bartlett to Philip Lutley Sclater regarding the doors to the new elephant house, animal food consumption, the female rhinoceros, the mounted specimen of a young gorilla, authorisation to sell Alice the elephant to Mr Barnum, and the theft of an owl
Preservation of zoological specimens
63 Description archivistique résultats pour Preservation of zoological specimens
Correspondence between Clarence Bartlett, Philip Lutley Sclater and Balmoral Castle regarding the skin and skeleton of a giraffe and the donation of the skin to the Natural History Museum. Also telegrams from Balmoral Castle sending the Queen's condolences on the death of the giraffe and her request that it should be buried
Lists date, lab number, ID number, animal, specimen, request, parasite and culture
Lists date, lab number, ID number, animal, specimen, request, parasite and culture
Lists date, lab number, ID number, animal, specimen, request, parasite and culture
Lists date, lab number, ID number, animal, specimen, request, parasite and culture
Lists date, lab number, ID number, animal, specimen, request, parasite and culture
Lists specimens in the Museum, with an arrival date, whether stuffed or in spirit, country, how obtained, and occasionally who deposited them. Arrival dates are from 1827-1840. Split into three groups of animals. Some specimens are from Sir Stamford Raffles' Sumatran collection.
A series of mounted Siphonaptera specimens, in a wooden box
An album of black and white and colour photographs of various python specimens