File AvailableOwen, R.S. 1894 The life of Richard Owen. London, John Murray, vol. 1, pp. i-xv, 1-409
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Indian Rhino
In November 1848, the rhinoceros died - and was examined by Richard Owen.
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File AvailableSclater, W.L. 1891 Catalogue of Mammalia in the Indian Museum, Calcutta. Calcutta, Indian Museum, vol. 2, pp. i-xxix, 1-375
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Javan Rhino
Coll. Indian Museum - Rhinoceros sondaicus. r. Skull, Male juv., Zoological Gardens.
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File AvailableLondon Zoo 1891 Alter eines Nashorns, Rhinoceros bicornis, im Londoner Zoologischen Garten. Zoologische Garten A.F. 32 (5): 155
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Black Rhino
A Diceros bicornis in London died after living 22 years in the zoo. It had a cancerous growth in the stomach.
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File AvailableSclater, W.L. 1891 Catalogue of Mammalia in the Indian Museum, Calcutta. Calcutta, Indian Museum, vol. 2, pp. i-xxix, 1-375
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Indian Rhino
Cat. Indian Museum - Rhinoceros unicornis, b. Skeleton, mounted, Female, 'Barrackpore Park', Medical College Mus.[Ex.], 1879.
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File AvailableSclater, W.L. 1891 Catalogue of Mammalia in the Indian Museum, Calcutta. Calcutta, Indian Museum, vol. 2, pp. i-xxix, 1-375
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Indian Rhino
Cat. Indian Museum - Rhinoceros unicornis. l. Skull, Rajah R. Mullick, 1871.
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File AvailableSclater, P.L. 1891 Remarks on interesting animals observed during a visit to the zoological gardens of Paris, Ghent, Antwerp, Rotterdam, Amsterdam, and The Hague. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1891 June 2: 326-327
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Black Rhino
The Menagerie in the jardin des Plantes was fortunate in still having a male example of the Black African Rhinoceros (Rhinoceros bicornis), received about ten years ago.
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File AvailableSclater, W.L. 1891 Catalogue of Mammalia in the Indian Museum, Calcutta. Calcutta, Indian Museum, vol. 2, pp. i-xxix, 1-375
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Javan Rhino
Coll. Indian Museum d. Skeleton, Male, Babu H. M. Roy, 1884. e. Skeleton, skin, M juv., Purchased, 1880 f. Skeleton, skin, F juv., W. Rutledge, 1881. g. Skeleton, skin, M juv., W. Rutledge, 1879. h Skeleton, skin, F juv., W. Rutledge, 1880 j. Skull, M juv., W. Rutledge, 1875.
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File AvailableSclater, W.L. 1891 Catalogue of Mammalia in the Indian Museum, Calcutta. Calcutta, Indian Museum, vol. 2, pp. i-xxix, 1-375
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Sumatran Rhino
Coll. Indian Museum - Dicerorhinus sumatrensis. e. Skeleton, Zoological Gardens, 1889; s. Skeleton, Zoological Gardens (1889).
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File AvailableSclater, W.L. 1891 Catalogue of Mammalia in the Indian Museum, Calcutta. Calcutta, Indian Museum, vol. 2, pp. i-xxix, 1-375
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Indian Rhino
Coll. Indian Museum - Rhinoceros unicornis, d. Skull skeleton, Female, Zoological Gardens, 1880
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File AvailableConklin, W.A. 1890 Report of the Director of the Central Park Menagerie for 1890. New York, Central Park Zoo
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Black Rhino
Shown 1 Diceros bicornis purchased 14 December 1886. A female.
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File AvailableAsiatic Society of Bengal 1890 Zoological garden at Alipore receives an Indian and Javan rhinoceros. Proceedings of the Asiatic Society of Bengal Jan-Dec 1889: 111
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Asian Rhino Species
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File AvailableNoll, F.C. 1889 Die Zoologischen Garten zu Kalkutta und Bombay. Der Zoologische Garten A.F. 30: 62-63
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Javan Rhino
Annual Report 1887/88. Important additions were 1 Indian and 1 Javan rhinoceros.
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File AvailableNoll, F.C. 1889 Die Zoologischen Garten zu Kalkutta und Bombay. Der Zoologische Garten A.F. 30: 62-63
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Indian Rhino
Annual Report 1887/88. Important additions were 1 Indian and 1 Javan rhinoceros.
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File AvailableNoack, T. 1889 Beitraege zur Kenntnis der Saeugethier-Fauna von Sud- und Sudwest-Afrika. Zoologische Jahrbucher 4: 94-261, pls. 1-4
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Black Rhino
Alive I have seen a specimen with a light grey-yellowish colour in 1887 with Hagenbeck in Hamburg. In comparioson with the Indian representatives, it moved a lot.
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File AvailableBuckland, C.T. 1889 Birth of a rhinoceros at Calcutta. Field, the country gentleman's magazine 1889 March 2: 308
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Sumatran Rhino
I enclose an extract from the 'Calcutta Englishman' newspaper notifying the birth of a rhinoceros at the Calcutta Zoological Gardens. 'Rhinoceros. - At the Zoological Garden, Alipore, on the 30th January, Rhinoceros Lasiotis, the wife of Rhinoceros Sumatrensis, of Caboul, of a son.' I am told t...
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File AvailableConklin, W.A. 1888 Report of the Director of the Central Park Menagerie for 1888. New York, Central Park Zoo
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Black Rhino
Shown 1 Diceros bicornis purchased 14 December 1886. A female.
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File AvailableSwierstra, K.N. 1888 Systematische naamlijst van gewervelde dieren voor de Diergaarde levend ingekomen van 1 mei 1838 tot 30 April 1888. Bijdragen tot de Dierkunde, Amsterdam 1888 (Feestnummer): 1-104
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Sumatran Rhino
Rhinoceros sumatrensis, first arrived in 1881.
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File AvailableBuckland, C.T. 1888 Ein Nashorn in der Gefangenschaft geboren. Zoologische Garten A.F. 29: 191
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Sumatran Rhino
In the zoo of Calcutta a male calf was born on 30 Jan 1888. The mother was Rhinoceros lasiotis, the father Rhinoceros sumatrensis. Unfortunately the latter was traded with Emir Abdul Rahmann of Afghanistan, but it is to be hoped that it will be returned to Calcutta.
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File AvailableSwierstra, K.N. 1888 Systematische naamlijst van gewervelde dieren voor de Diergaarde levend ingekomen van 1 mei 1838 tot 30 April 1888. Bijdragen tot de Dierkunde, Amsterdam 1888 (Feestnummer): 1-104
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Indian Rhino
Rhinoceros unicornis, first arrived in 1864
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File AvailableSclater, P.L. 1887 Additions to the Society's Menagerie in December 1886. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1887 January 18: 1-2
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Indian Rhino
Received in Dec 1886: a young male R.unicornis, presented by HH The Maharajah of Cooch Behar, through the intervention of Dr. B. Simpson, and received Dec 25. This is an important acquisition, as the only other specimen we possess is the male presented by the late Arthur Grote, which has lately ...
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File AvailableSclater, P.L. 1885 Report on the additions to the Society's Menagerie in April 1885. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1885 April 21: 421
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Sumatran Rhino
Purchased from Mr. Cross of Liverpool on 16 April 1885 for ?500, a pair of Sumatran rhinoceros, these are young animals, perhaps about three quarters of their full size.
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File AvailableLondon Zoological Society 1883 List of the vertebrated animals now or lately living in the Gardens of the Zoological Society of London, 8th ed. London, Zoological Society of London, pp. i-xvi, 1-682
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Javan Rhino
a. Male. Purchased, 7 March 1874.
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File AvailableGaebler, B. 1883 Der Zoologische Garten zu Berlin. Zoologische Garten A.F. 24 (7): 208-212
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Javan Rhino
One specimen of Javan rhinoceros.
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File AvailableLondon Zoological Society 1883 List of the vertebrated animals now or lately living in the Gardens of the Zoological Society of London, 8th ed. London, Zoological Society of London, pp. i-xvi, 1-682
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Black Rhino
a. Purchased, 11 September 1868. From Upper Nubia.
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File AvailableLukin, A. 1883 Zoologischer Garten in St Petersburg - Verzeichnis des Tierbestandes am 1. September 1882. Zoologische Garten A.F. 24 (9): 279-281
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Indian Rhino
Animals present on 1.9.1882. One specimen of R. indicus
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File AvailableLondon Zoological Society 1883 List of the vertebrated animals now or lately living in the Gardens of the Zoological Society of London, 8th ed. London, Zoological Society of London, pp. i-xvi, 1-682
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Sumatran Rhino
Rhinoceros lasiotis a. Female. Purchased 14 February 1872. Rhinoceros sumatrensis a. Female. Purchased, 21 August 1872. b. Female. Deposited 14 July 1875 and subsequently purchased. c. Female. Deposited 4 October 1878. d. Male. Deposited 20 March 1879. Died 6 April 1879.
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File AvailableGaebler, B. 1883 Der Zoologische Garten zu Berlin. Zoologische Garten A.F. 24 (7): 208-212
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Indian Rhino
a pair of Indian Rhinoceros
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File AvailableGaebler, B. 1883 Der Zoologische Garten zu Berlin. Zoologische Garten A.F. 24 (7): 208-212
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Black Rhino
One specimen of African rhino, Rhinoceros bicornis.
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File AvailableBird, Isabella L. 1883 Sketches in the Malay peninsula. Littell's Living Age 156 (2018): 498-506
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File AvailableForbes, W.A. 1881 On the male generative organs of the Sumatran rhinoceros (Ceratorhinus sumatrensis). Transactions of the Zoological Society of London 11: 107-109, pl. 20
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Sumatran Rhino
On March 20, 1879, the Society received on approval a fully adult male of this animal, being, I believe, the first individual of that sex brought alive to Europe. Unfortunately it died on the 5th of April following, the postmortem examination showing evidence of dropsy, as well as of tubercle in...
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File AvailableSigel, W.L. 1881 Die Thierpflege des Zoologischen Gartens in Hamburg, Slot. Zoologische Garten A.F. 22 (12): 355-363
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Indian Rhino
There is 1 adult, one-horned rhinoceros.
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File AvailableSigel, W.L. 1881 Die Thierpflege des Zoologischen Gartens in Hamburg, Slot. Zoologische Garten A.F. 22 (12): 355-363
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Black Rhino
There is 1 younger, two-horned rhinoceros - which is given in custody, does not belong to us.
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File AvailableSclater, P.L. 1880 Remarks on animals observed in the zoological gardens of Berlin, Hamburg, Amsterdam, The Hague and Antwerp. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1880 June 1: 420
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Indian Rhino
There was a fine adult pair of the large Indian Rhinoceros together, with a good prospect of their breeding in captivity.
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File AvailableSclater, P.L. 1880 Remarks on animals observed in the zoological gardens of Berlin, Hamburg, Amsterdam, The Hague and Antwerp. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1880 June 1: 420
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Javan Rhino
There was also, now quite adult, the young rhinoceros imported by Mr. Jamrach in 1874, and said to have been obtained in the Munipore district, of which Mr. Sclater had spoken as probably an example of R. sondaicus. In this conclusion he now thought he had been mistaken. The animal was much too...
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File AvailableLondon Zoological Society 1879 List of the vertebrated animals now or lately living in the Gardens of the Zoological Society of London, 7th ed. London, Zoological Society of London
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Javan Rhino
a. Male. Purchased, 7 March 1874.
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Conklin, W.A. 1879 Report of the Director of the Central Park Menagerie for 1879. New York, Central Park Zoo
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Indian Rhino
Rhinoceros placed on exhibition 18 March 1879. [species not stated]
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File AvailableLondon Zoological Society 1879 List of the vertebrated animals now or lately living in the Gardens of the Zoological Society of London, 7th ed. London, Zoological Society of London
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Sumatran Rhino
Rhinoceros lasiotis a. Female. Purchased 14 February 1872. Rhinoceros sumatrensis a. Female. Purchased, 21 August 1872. b. Female. Deposited 14 July 1875 and subsequently purchased. c. Female. Deposited 4 October 1878.
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File AvailableSclater, P.L. 1879 Report on the additions to the Society's Menagerie in March 1879. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1879 April 1: 308
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Sumatran Rhino
A male sumatran Rhinoceros deposited on 20 March 1879. The first male in the zoo.
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File AvailableLondon Zoological Society 1879 List of the vertebrated animals now or lately living in the Gardens of the Zoological Society of London, 7th ed. London, Zoological Society of London
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Black Rhino
List of mammals. a. Purchased, 11 September 1868. From Upper Nubia.
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File AvailableLondon Zoological Society 1879 List of the vertebrated animals now or lately living in the Gardens of the Zoological Society of London, 7th ed. London, Zoological Society of London
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Indian Rhino
a. Male. Purchased, 20 September 1834, died 19 September 1849. b. Female. Purcahsed 17 July 1850, died 14 December 1873. c. Male. Presented by A. Grote, Esq., FZS, 25 July 1864. d. Female. Brought from Calcutta by the Society's collector, 25 July 1864. Sent in exchange to the Jardin des Pl...
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File AvailableLondon Zoological Society 1879 List of the vertebrated animals now or lately living in the Gardens of the Zoological Society of London, 7th ed. London, Zoological Society of London
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Indian Rhino
List of mammals. d. Female. Brought from Calcutta by the Society's collector, 25 July 1864. Sent in exchange to the Jardin des Plantes, 20 June 1865.
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File AvailableMartin, P.L. 1878 Die Praxis der Naturgeschichte, vol 3 Naturstudien Die botanischen, zoologischen und Akklamatisationsgaerten, Menagerien, Aquarien und Terrarien in ihrer gegenwaertigen Entwicklung. Weimar, B.F.Voigt, pp. i-xii, 1-252
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Indian Rhino
I have nothing new to say concerning the rhinoceros, hippos, giraffes.
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File AvailableMartin, P.L. 1878 Die Praxis der Naturgeschichte, vol 3 Naturstudien Die botanischen, zoologischen und Akklamatisationsgaerten, Menagerien, Aquarien und Terrarien in ihrer gegenwaertigen Entwicklung. Weimar, B.F.Voigt, pp. i-xii, 1-252
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Indian Rhino
In the Elephant and Antilope House there is a beautiful and tame Indian rhinoceros.
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File AvailableMartin, P.L. 1878 Die Praxis der Naturgeschichte, vol 3 Naturstudien Die botanischen, zoologischen und Akklamatisationsgaerten, Menagerien, Aquarien und Terrarien in ihrer gegenwaertigen Entwicklung. Weimar, B.F.Voigt, pp. i-xii, 1-252
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Indian Rhino
The large Winterhouse is a nice and light building, in which there is an Indian rhinoceros.
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File AvailableMartin, P.L. 1878 Die Praxis der Naturgeschichte, vol 3 Naturstudien Die botanischen, zoologischen und Akklamatisationsgaerten, Menagerien, Aquarien und Terrarien in ihrer gegenwaertigen Entwicklung. Weimar, B.F.Voigt, pp. i-xii, 1-252
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Indian Rhino
In the Elephant House, there is an Indian rhinoceros.
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File AvailableCalcutta Zoo 1878 List of animals in the Zoological Gardens, Calcutta. Calcutta, Bengal Secretariat Press, pp. 1-31
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Indian Rhino
Adult female Rhinoceros indicus, presented by the Maharajah of Dumraon, 7 April 1877.
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File AvailableSclater, P.L. 1878 Report on the additions to the Society's Menagerie in June, July, August, September and October, 1878. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1878 November 5: 790-791
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Sumatran Rhino
Deposited by Mr. C. Jamrach, on 4 Oct 1878, a full-grown female Sumatran Rhinoceros.
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File AvailableMartin, P.L. 1878 Die Praxis der Naturgeschichte, vol 3 Naturstudien Die botanischen, zoologischen und Akklamatisationsgaerten, Menagerien, Aquarien und Terrarien in ihrer gegenwaertigen Entwicklung. Weimar, B.F.Voigt, pp. i-xii, 1-252
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Indian Rhino
The Pachyderm House in the shape of a pagoda is very beautiful. There is a far, thick-bellied rhinoceros [no species given.]
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File AvailableAnonymous 1878 Berlin, Hagenbecks Tierkaravan. Isis, Zeitschrift fur alle naturwissenschaftlichen Liebhabereien 3 (21): 168
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Black Rhino
On 24 September 1878 there arrived in Berlin Hagenbeck's Nubian Caravan which included 4 rhinos (R. bicornis).
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File AvailableAnonymous 1878 Berlin, Zoologische Garten. Isis, Zeitschrift fur alle naturwissenschaftlichen Liebhabereien 3 (24): 192
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Sumatran Rhino
The pachyderm collection was enlarged by the arrival of a black Sumatran rhinoceros, which gives a total of four rhinoceros species.
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File AvailableCalcutta Zoo 1878 List of animals in the Zoological Gardens, Calcutta. Calcutta, Bengal Secretariat Press, pp. 1-31
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Javan Rhino
a. juvenile R. sondaicus, purchased, 17 Nov 1877.
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File AvailableBall, V. 1877 Notes on certain mammals occurring in the Basin of Mahanadi. Proceedings of the Asiatic Society of Bengal 1877 July: 168-172
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Indian Rhino
As Rhinoceros sondaicus . It has occurred to me as possible that the rumours [of the animals existence near the Mahanaddy River] may have got abroad from the fact of there having formerly been tame specimens in the possession of some of the Raja. At Barpali in the Dak in-tir of Sambalpur, the Ra...
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File AvailableSclater, P.L. 1877 Remarks upon a two-horned rhinoceros killed in 1876 near Comillah in Tipperah, and on a living specimen of Rhinoceros sondaicus from the Sunderbans. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1877 March 20: 269-270
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Javan Rhino
Mr W. Jamrach had just imported a young living specimen of the Rhinoceros of the Bengal Sunderbans, which was either Rhinoceros sondaicus or a very closely allied form. Mr Sclater had lately examined this animal, a female, measured 3 feet in height. At this time of life there certainly was no a...
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File AvailableGarrod, A.H. 1877 On the Taenia of the rhinoceros of the Sunderbunds (Plagiotaenia gigantea, Peters). Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1877 November 20: 788-789, fig. 1
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Javan Rhino
During this summer I have had the opportunity of eviscerating a half-grown female of Rhinoceros sondaicus, from the Sunderbunds, which had been a little more than six months in this country. In the commencement of the colon I found three tapeworms with their heads (scoleces), together with sever...
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File AvailableNoll, F.C. 1876 Besuch einiges zoologischen Gaerten und Aquarien im Juli 1876. Zoologische Garten A.F 17 (9): 335-339
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Javan Rhino
Visit July 1876. In the Pachyderm House we found one pair of Indian rhinoceros (Rhinoceros indicus unicornis), one very shy double-horned rhino (Rh. bicornis) and one Javan rhinoceros (Rh. javanicus).
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File AvailableNoll, F.C. 1876 Besuch einiges zoologischen Gaerten und Aquarien im Juli 1876. Zoologische Garten A.F 17 (9): 335-339
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Indian Rhino
Visit July 1876. In the Pachyderm House we found one pair of Indian rhinoceros (Rhinoceros indicus unicornis), one very shy double-horned rhino (Rh. bicornis) and one Javan rhinoceros (Rh. javanicus).
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File AvailableNoll, F.C. 1876 Besuch einiges zoologischen Gaerten und Aquarien im Juli 1876. Zoologische Garten A.F 17 (9): 335-339
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Black Rhino
Visit July 1876. In the Pachyderm House we found one pair of Indian rhinoceros (Rhinoceros indicus unicornis), one very shy double-horned rhino (Rh. bicornis) and one Javan rhinoceros (Rh. javanicus).
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File AvailableSclater, P.L. 1876 Exhibition and remarks upon a skin of a young rhinoceros from the Sunderbunds. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1876 November 7: 751
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Javan Rhino
Mr Sclater exhibited the skin of a young rhinoceros belonging to Mr. W. Jamrach, female, captured in the Sunderbunds in May 1876 and brought immediately to calcutta, where it only lived 24 hours.
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File AvailableBoelsche, W. 1876 Eine Rhinozeros-Denkmünze aus dem vorigen Jahrhundert. Isis: Zeitschrift fur alle naturwissenschaftlichen Liebhabereien 1 (18), 13 November 1876, 144-145
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Indian Rhino
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File AvailableWood Mason, J. 1875 Meeting of 1st December 1875. Proceedings of the Asiatic Society of Bengal 1875: 229-230
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Javan Rhino
Meeting of Asiatic Society of Bengal on 1 December 1875. Some disappointment was delt at Mr Wood-Mason's announcement that the living specimen of Rhinoceros sondaicus which was to have been exhibited at the meeting, was indisposed, and could not attend. Photographs were shown. The animal died t...
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File AvailableDarwin, C. 1875 The variation of animals and plants under domestication, 2nd revised edition. London, John Murray, vol. 2, pp. i-x, 1-495
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Indian Rhino
The captive rhinoceros seems, from Bishop Heber's account, to breed in India far more readily than the elephant.
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File AvailableNewman, E. 1874 Rhinoceros sondaicus at the Zoological Gardens. Zoologist (2) 9: 3949-3952
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Javan Rhino
Edward Blyth, whose knowledge of Indian Mammalia was unrivaled, and whose death we are still lamenting, published, at p. 8506 of the ' Zoologist' for 1863, the most exhaustive 'Memoir on the living Asiatic Species of Rhinoceros' that has ever appeared. He collected every previously printed allus...
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File AvailableNewman, E. 1874 Rhinoceros sondaicus at the Zoological Gardens. Zoologist (2) 9: 3949-3952
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Sumatran Rhino
It is now supposed that Asia or its islands possess in addition two two-horned species, which have been called R. malayanus and R. lasiotis; the latter is comparatively new, and was exhibited for the first time in the Gardens last year. These two, concerning which much has been written, agree in...
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File AvailableSclater, P.L. 1874 Announcement of the arrival in the Society's menagerie of a Javan rhinoceros. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1874 March 17: 182-183, pl. 2
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Javan Rhino
On 7 March 1874, the Council had purchased of Messrs. Cross and Jamrach, for ?850, a young male Javan Rhinoceros imported from Batavia [Java].
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File AvailableGarrod, A.H. 1874 Notes on the anatomy of the Indian rhinoceros. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1874 January 6: 2
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Indian Rhino
Death of female on 14 Dec 1873, lived in gardens for 23 years.
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File AvailableAnonymous 1874 On the new rhinoceros at the Zoological Gardens. Nature 9, March 12: 363-364
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12 March 1874
ON THE NEW RHINOCEROS AT THE ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS
A glance at our list of additions to the Zoological Gardens during the last week will inform the reader that the Zoological Society has been successful in adding to its already unrivalled collection of specimens of the genus Rh...
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File AvailableSclater, P.L. 1874 Announcement of the arrival in the Society's menagerie of a Javan rhinoceros. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1874 March 17: 182-183, pl. 2
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R. sondaicus received in London on 7 March 1874. This was believed to be the first example of this rhinoceros that had ever been brought alive to Europe, although Mr. Blyth (JASB p.152) had put forward atheory that one of the Indian Rhinoceroses exhibited in England some time since had belonged ...
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File AvailableAnonymous 1874 Addition to Zoological Society. Illustrated London News 1874 April 18: 377-378
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The Zoological Society have lately made an important addition to their living collection in the Regent's Park, in the shape of a new rhinoceros, belonging to the species called by naturalists the Sondaic or Javan rhinoceros. The present specimen, which is believed to be the only individual of th...
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File AvailableAnonymous 1874 Addition to Zoological Society. Illustrated London News 1874 April 18: 377-378
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The Zoological Society have lately made an important addition to their living collection in the Regent's Park, in the shape of a new rhinoceros, belonging to the species called by naturalists the Sondaic or Javan rhinoceros. The present specimen, which is believed to be the only individual of th...
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File AvailableAnonymous 1873 Birth of a rhinoceros in London. Zoologist (2) 8: 3365-3366
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Birth of a Rhinoceros in London. This unprecedented event occurred in the London Docks on the evening of the 6th of December [1872], and we learn the following particulars from the obliging keeper Mr. John Warncken. The two animals, mother and child, are the property of Mr. Rice, naturalist, of ...
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File AvailableAnonymous 1873 Verwustungen durch ein losgerissenes Nashorn. Zoologische Garten A.F. 14 (3): 118
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Circus Warrer & Co., USA, 1873. From the New York Tribune: A letter sent from Red Bird, a small town in Monroe Country, Illinois, tells about the escape of a rhinoceros which belongs to the Menagerie and Circus of Warrer & Co. and was to be shown in the arena for the first time. The owner had p...
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File AvailableBartlett, A.D. 1873 On the birth of a Sumatran rhinoceros. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1873 January 21: 104-106, pl. 11, fig. 1
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The steamship Orchis arrived at the Victoria Docks from Singapore on Decernber 7, 1872, having on board an adult female Sumatran Rhinoceros (Rhinoceros sumatrensis). [Left Singapore on 21 september] About 7 o'clock in the evening of that day the keeper was surprised to hear a feeble squeakin...
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File AvailableBartlett, A.D. 1873 On the birth of a Sumatran rhinoceros. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1873 January 21: 104-106, pl. 11, fig. 1
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transport R. lasiotis. It has occurred to me since that she was probably in the sulks; for I remember the account of the Hairy-eared Rhinoceros when being removed in Calcutta; she turned sulky and lay down in the street, and it was with the greatest difficulty she was dragged or rather slid alon...
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File AvailableSclater, P.L. 1873 Remarks on animals seen in some of the continental zoological gardens. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1873 May 20: 473-474
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In the Garden of the Zoological Society of Hamburg the female Sumatran rhinoceros (Rhinoceros sumatrensis) obatined about the same time as that formerly in this Society's Gardens was one of the principal animals.
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File AvailableFriedel, E. 1873 Thierleben und Thierpflege in Holland, England u Belgien (Reisebemerkungen aus dem Jahre 1871). Zoologische Garten A.F. 14 (6): 212-218
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A young Indian rhinoceros with a very small start of a horn.
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File AvailableFriedel, E. 1872 Thierleben und Thierpflege in Holland, England u Belgien (Reisebemerkungen aus dem Jahre 1871). Zoologische Garten A.F. 13 (11): 353-364
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The zoo bought a specimen as R. sumatrensis from Jamrach for ? 1250. According to the work of Dr Sclater, this would be a new species which he called Rh. Lasiotis, differing from R. sumatrensis by the smoother skin in lasiotis, while the ear is larger and more hairy.
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File AvailableTegetmeier, W.B. 1872 Arrival of a Sumatran rhinoceros in the Zoological Gardens

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For a most interesting account of the capture, purchase and transport of this valuable animal, I am indebted to the columns of the 'Field', to which paper it was contributed by my friend Mr. Tegetmeier. It is here reprinted. 'About five years ago a Calcutta paper announced the capture of a you...
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File AvailableNewman, E. 1872 Another rhinoceros at the Zoological Gardens. Zoologist (2) 7: 3232-3233
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September 1872. During the last fortnight another hairy rhinoceros has arrived from the East, and this, like the former, but i trust more correctly, is supposed to be Rhinoceros sumatranus.
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File AvailableSclater, P.L. 1872 Notes on Propithecus bicornis and Rhinoceros lasiotis. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (4) 10 (58): 298-299
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I may add that Mr Blyth, who has paid special attention to Asiatic rhinos, and Dr. Dorner, who has examined not only the specimen in the Regent's Park, but also the similar animal in the Zoological Society of Hamburg, of which he is Secretary, are both of opinion that the Malaccan animal is the t...
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File AvailableSclater, P.L. 1872 Announcement of the addition to the Society's collection of a female Sumatran Rhinoceros. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1872 February 20: 185
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On 15 Feb. 1870 was purchased from Mr. Wm. Jamrach for ? 1250 a fine female specimen of Rhinoceros sumatrensis from Chittagong.
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File AvailableNewman, E. 1872 The female rhinoceros: succesful removal of her horn. Zoologist (2) 7: 3061-3062
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Some time back I published a brief notice of a peculiar infirmity of the female Indian rhinoceros at the Zoo (Zool. S. S. 2341), namely, that her horn was loose and toppled forward, so as to come into contact with her nose: this irritated the part against which it rested, eventually causing a so...
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File AvailableNewman, E. 1872 Arrival of a Sumatran rhinoceros at the Zoological Gardens. Zoologist (2) 7: 3057-3060
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The Sumatran rhinoceros (Rhinoceros sumatranus) is much less than the Indian species, Rhinoceros unicornis, two magnifcent specimens of which are already in our collection, both unfortunately mutilated by the loss of their horn: the first loss, that of the male, was an instance of self-mutilation...
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File AvailableNewman, E. 1872 Arrival of a Sumatran rhinoceros at the Zoological Gardens. Zoologist (2) 7: 3057-3060
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A similar accident is recorded in the 'Zoologist' (S.S. 1915) as having happened to a female rhinoceros at Moscow: the horn is still preserved in the museum in that city, and the animal has developed a new horn on the site of the old one - a remarkable and interesting fact: the similar position o...
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File AvailableAnderson, J. 1872 Notes on Rhinoceros sumatrensis, Cuvier. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1872 February 6: 129-132
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The specimen examined is a young female that strayed into Chittagong in February 1869, when it was captured, and where it has remained till within the last few weeks. It has been brought to Calcutta by Mr. Jamrach of London, to whom I am indebted for my examination of this interesting animal. Mr....
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File AvailableNewman, E. 1872 Arrival of a Sumatran rhinoceros at the Zoological Gardens. Zoologist (2) 7: 3057-3060
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Both the horns in the individual now before me have the appearance of having been sawn off, an appearance admirably represented in the masterly figure of the animal published at p.233 of the 'Field' newspaper, a faithful representation of nature which does the artist infinite credit. In this and...
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File AvailableFriedel, E. 1872 Thierleben und Thierpflege in Holland, England u Belgien (Reisebemerkungen aus dem Jahre 1871). Zoologische Garten A.F. 13 (11): 327-337
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A beautiful Indian Rhinoceros unicornis adorns the zoo like the hippopotamus.
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File AvailableAnonymous 1872 Hairy rhinoceros in England. Annual record of science and industry 1872: 246
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File AvailableAnonymous 1870 Das erste lebende Rhinoceros in England. Ausland 43: 139-142, figs. 1-2
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there are 2 males, 1 female. A young male knocked off its horn.
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File AvailableNewman, E. 1870 The horn of the Indian rhinoceros moveable. Zoologist (2) 5: 2341
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Interested, like very many others, in the curious feat of self-mutilation performed by the male rhinoceros at the Zoo, I paid him a visit on Saturday, August the 27th, expecting to see the horn itself adorned with a label notifying the particulars of so extraordinary an event: in this I was disap...
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Sanyal, R.B. 1870 List of animals wanted by the Zoological Garden, Calcutta. Calcutta, Zoological Gardens, pp. 1-10
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Calcutta Zoo wants to acquire smaller one-horned rhinoceros.
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File AvailableBlyth, E. [Zoophilus] 1869 Rhinoceros horn toppling forward. Field, the country gentleman's magazine 34,1869 September 4: 192
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the female rhino has a horn which inclines forward.
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File AvailableBlyth, E. 1869 The zoological garden at Antwerp. Field, the country gentleman's magazine 34, 1869 September 4: 191-192
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an old but not a handsome rhinoceros.
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File AvailableBuckland, F.T. 1868 Curiosities of natural history. Third series. London, Richard Bentley and Son, pp. i-xv, 1-353
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Wombwell Menagerie, UK. Under the direction of Mr. Edmonds, late Woombwell. Mr edmonds has a very fine one-horned rhinoceros, which has been in the show 21 years, and which cost 1400 pounds at the sale of the animals at the Manchester Zoological Gardens; he always rides in his van, being a valu...
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File AvailableBuckland, F.T. 1868 Curiosities of natural history. Third series. London, Richard Bentley and Son, pp. i-xv, 1-353
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In January 1867, when paying a visit to Jamrach, I saw two skulls of Indian rhinoceros in his shop. Jamrach sent his son to India in purpose to get the rhinoceros. Having purchased them up the country, Jamrach Jr drove them some 200 miles down to the seaport, I believe Calcutta. He managed his...
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File AvailableBuckland, F.T. 1868 Curiosities of natural history. Third series. London, Richard Bentley and Son, pp. i-xv, 1-353
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Under the direction of Mr. Edmonds, late Woombwell. Mr Edmonds has a very fine one-horned rhinoceros, which has been in the show 21 years, and which cost 1400 pounds at the sale of the animals at the Manchester Zoological Gardens; he always rides in his van, being a valuable animal and worth his...
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File AvailableBlyth, E. 1868 Rhinoceros shedding their horns. Journal of Travel and Natural History 1: 70
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A rhinoceros in the menagerie at Moscow had shed its horn. This is not unusual. The information was received from Count Alexis Bobrensky of Moscow.
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File AvailableSclater, P.L. 1868 On additions to the Society's Menagerie, and report on Leconte's expedition to the Falkland Islands. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1868 November 12: 526-530, pl. 41
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Black Rhino
Purchased 11 Sep 1868, a young male Rhinoceros bicornis. Purchased for the Society of Mr. Carl Hagenbeck, originally captured on 12 Feb 1868 by the Arabs of the Beni-Ammer tribe, in the vicinity of Casala, in Upper Nubia, and sold by them to Herr Casanova, an enterprising traveller of Vienna. P...
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File AvailableAnonymous 1868 New arrivals at the [London] zoological gardens. Illustrated London News 45 (3 October 1868): 312, 3 figures
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File AvailableAnonymous 1868 Arrival of a two-horned rhinoceros. The Times (London) 1868 September 12: 5
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File AvailableAnonymous 1868 Arrival of a two-horned rhinoceros. The Times (London) 1868 September 12: 5
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