File AvailableGray, J.E. 1843 List of the specimens of Mammalia in the collection of the British Museum. London, Trustees of the British Museum, pp. i-xxviii, 1-216
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White Rhino
Half-grown. Locality: South Africa. In coll. From the South African Museum, London, United Kingdom. To British Museum (NH)
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File AvailableSherwill, W.S. 1843 List of specimens presented to the Asiatic Society's Museum. Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal 12: 62-72
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Africa - Southern Africa - South Africa
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Black Rhino
Horn. Locality: South Africa. Collected by: W.S. Sherwill, 1843. Asiatic Society of Bengal, Calcutta, India.
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File AvailableGray, J.E. 1843 List of the specimens of Mammalia in the collection of the British Museum. London, Trustees of the British Museum, pp. i-xxviii, 1-216
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Black Rhino
Skin. Locality: South Africa. In Natural History Museum, London, United Kingdom. Catalogue number: a
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File AvailableGray, J.E. 1843 List of the specimens of Mammalia in the collection of the British Museum. London, Trustees of the British Museum, pp. i-xxviii, 1-216
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Africa - Southern Africa - South Africa
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Black Rhino
Skin. Locality: South Africa. Collected by: London, South African Museum. In Natural History Museum, London, United Kingdom. Catalogue number: b
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File AvailableGray, J.E. 1843 List of the specimens of Mammalia in the collection of the British Museum. London, Trustees of the British Museum, pp. i-xxviii, 1-216
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Africa - Southern Africa - South Africa
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Black Rhino
Specimen unspecified. Locality: South Africa. Collected by: Earl of Derby. In Natural History Museum, London, United Kingdom. Catalogue number: c
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File AvailableGray, J.E. 1843 List of the specimens of Mammalia in the collection of the British Museum. London, Trustees of the British Museum, pp. i-xxviii, 1-216
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Africa - Southern Africa - South Africa
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Black Rhino
Specimen unspecified. Locality: South Africa. Collected by: London, South African Museum. In Natural History Museum, London, United Kingdom. Catalogue number: keitloa a
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File AvailableRoorda van Eysinga, P.P. 1843 Indie, ter bevordering der kennis van Nederlands Oostersche bezittingen. Breda, Nijs, vol. 3, part 1, pp. vi, 1-560
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Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Java
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Javan Rhino
In 1821 the author saw a pit to capture rhinoceros near Radja Mendala in the Preanger Regentschappen.
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File AvailableBlyth, E. 1842 Proceedings of the Asiatic Society, 6 May 1842. Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal 11: 444-470
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Asia - South East Asia - Myanmar (Burma)
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Indian Rhino
2 heads. Locality: Tenasserim. Collected by: T.H. Maddock, 1842. Asiatic Society of Bengal, Calcutta, India.
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File AvailableBlyth, E. 1842 Proceedings of the Asiatic Society, 6 May 1842. Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal 11: 444-470
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Asia - South East Asia - Myanmar (Burma)
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Sumatran Rhino
2 heads. Locality: Tenasserim. Collected by: T.H. Maddock, 1842. Asiatic Society of Bengal, Calcutta, India.
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File AvailableBlyth, E. 1842 Proceedings of the Asiatic Society, 6 May 1842. Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal 11: 444-470
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Asia - East Asia - China
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Javan Rhino
The discovery of the formerly supposed exclusively insular Rhinoceros sondaicus on the Burmese mainlandm casts a doubt upon which is the Chinese species noticed by Duhalde to inhabit the province of Quang Si in latitude 25 degrees.
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File AvailableBlyth, E. 1842 Proceedings of the Asiatic Society, 6 May 1842. Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal 11: 444-470
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Asia - East Asia - China
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Asian Rhino Species
The discovery of the formerly supposed exclusively insular Rhinoceros sondaicus on the Burmese mainlandm casts a doubt upon which is the Chinese species noticed by Duhalde to inhabit the province of Quang Si in latitude 25 degrees.
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File AvailableBlyth, E. 1842 Proceedings of the Asiatic Society, 6 May 1842. Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal 11: 444-470
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Asia - South East Asia - Borneo
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Asian Rhino Species
Whether more than one rhinoceros exists in Borneo, we have at present no data for forming an opinion.
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File AvailableBlyth, E. 1842 Proceedings of the Asiatic Society, 6 May 1842. Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal 11: 444-470
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Asia - South East Asia - Myanmar (Burma)
Distribution - Records
Asian Rhino Species
Mus. Asiatic Society, Calcutta. The fact of all the three of the Asiatic species of this genus inhabiting Tenasserim, was first made known in Dr Helfer's list of the animal productions of that region, and that `a double horned rhinoceros is said to have been seen by the natives in the neighbourh...
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File AvailableBlyth, E. 1842 Proceedings of the Asiatic Society, 6 May 1842. Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal 11: 444-470
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Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Sumatra
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Asian Rhino Species
Raffles said that Rhinoceros sondaicus did not occur in Sumatra. This may be doubted now that the R. sondaicus has proved to be common in Java and Tenasserim, and it appears probable, that while the latter only inhabits Java, it will be found to exist together with R. sumatrensis in Sumatra, as ...
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File AvailableBlyth, E. 1842 Proceedings of the Asiatic Society, 6 May 1842. Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal 11: 444-470
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Asia - South East Asia - Myanmar (Burma)
Distribution - Records
Asian Rhino Species
Mus. Asiatic Society, Calcutta. From T.H. Maddock, four heads of rhinoceroses, from Tenasserim, two of them belonging to the common Indian species (Rh. Indicus), the two others to Rh. sumatrensis. The fact of all the three of the Asiatic species of this genus inhabiting Tenasserim, was first ma...
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File AvailableBlyth, E. 1842 Proceedings of the Asiatic Society, 6 May 1842. Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal 11: 444-470
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Asia - South East Asia - Myanmar (Burma)
Distribution - Records
Asian Rhino Species
Museum Asiatic Society, Calcutta. From T.H. Maddock, four heads of rhinoceroses, from Tenasserim, two of them belonging to the common Indian species (Rh. Indicus), the two others to Rh. sumatrensis.
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File AvailableArbousset, T.; Daumas, F. 1842 Relation d'un voyage d'exploration au Nord-est de la Colonie du Cap de Bonne-Esperance, entrepris dans les mois de mars, avril et mai 1836. Paris, Arthus Bertrand, pp. i-xii, 1-620
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Africa - Southern Africa - South Africa
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Black Rhino
[Region east of Orange River] There are here two distinct species of rhinoceros. One is big, comparatively tame, called mogoufou; the other, smaller, greyer in colour than the other and nicknamed the brutal one or magale, because he is extremely ferocious.
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File AvailablePearson, J.T. 1840 Zoological catalogue of the Museum of the Asiatic Society. Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal 9 (1): 514-530
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Asia - South Asia - India
Distribution - Records
Indian Rhino
Catalogue Asiatic Society, Calcutta. No. 31, an articulated skeleton, shot at Baugundee, in Jessore, by Mr J.H. Barlow and presented in his name to the Society in 1834.
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File AvailableMueller, S. 1839 Over de zoogdieren van den Indischen Archipel: pp. 1-57

In: Temminck, C.J. Verhandelingen over de natuurlijke geschiedenis der Nederlandsche overzeesche bezittingen, Zoologie. Leiden, S. and J. Luchtmans en C.C. van der Hoek: [not paginated]
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Asia - South East Asia - Borneo
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Javan Rhino
In a similarly uncertain way we heard from several Malays and Dayaks that there would be rhinoceroses in Borneo in some places. The same rumour was reported by earlier travellers and is found in Ritter's Erdkunde, although nobody says anything about the species. According to a rough sketch of a...
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File AvailableMueller, S. 1839 Over de zoogdieren van den Indischen Archipel: pp. 1-57

In: Temminck, C.J. Verhandelingen over de natuurlijke geschiedenis der Nederlandsche overzeesche bezittingen, Zoologie. Leiden, S. and J. Luchtmans en C.C. van der Hoek: [not paginated]
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Asia - South East Asia - Borneo
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Sumatran Rhino
According to a rough sketch of a Bejadjoe-Dayak, who said that he had seen once, when he was still young, a male rhinoceros in the upper reaches of the Kahayan River, the animal has the size of a large buffalo, and he has only one horn.
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File AvailablePallegoix, J.B. 1839 Relation d'un voyage a Chanthaburi, suivie d'un apercu sur la tribu des Tchongs. Bulletin de la Societe de Geographie, Paris (2) 12: 169-181
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Asia - South East Asia - Thailand
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Asian Rhino Species
People living in the forest hunt tigers, bears, rhinoceros, buffalo, wild cows and deer.The method to get to the rhinoceros is very curious. Four or five men take solid pieces of bamboo, the point of which is very sharp and has been strengthened in the fire. Armed like this, they go to the plac...
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File AvailableGelpke, J.H.F.S. 1838 Schets van het eiland Nousakambang-an. Tijdschrift voor Nederlandsch Indie 1 (2): 54-70
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Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Java
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Javan Rhino
Head. Locality: Island Nousakambang-an, off Java's south coast. Collected by: Gelpke, 1834. In coll. Natural History Museum, Batavia, Indonesia
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File AvailableNewbold, T.J. 1838 Sketch of the Malayan peninsula. Madras Journal of Literature and Science 7: 52-75
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Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Peninsular
Distribution - Records
Sumatran Rhino
account of mammals of Naning. The rhinoceros.
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File AvailableGelpke, J.H.F.S. 1838 Schets van het eiland Nousakambang-an. Tijdschrift voor Nederlandsch Indie 1 (2): 54-70
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Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Java
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Javan Rhino
Island Nousakambang-an, off Java's south coast. Rhinoceroses have settled on the island, but if we are to believe the story of the local people who have lived on the island for seventy years, it appears that there is only one of these dangerous animals on the island, which the people perceive as...
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File AvailablePearson, J.T. 1838 A letter to Dr. Helfer, on the zoology of Tenasserim and the neighbouring provinces. Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal 7: 357-363
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Asia - South East Asia - Myanmar (Burma)
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Asian Rhino Species
Of the Pachydermata, the elephant and rhinoceros seem to be common in the provinces to the north and east of Tenasserim.
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File AvailableHelfer, J.W. 1838 Notes on the animal productions of the Tenasserim Provinces. Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal 7 (2): 855-863
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Asia - South East Asia - Myanmar (Burma)
Distribution - Records
Asian Rhino Species
The rhinoceros is a common animal throughout the provinces, and perhaps more numerous than the elephant, though its less gregarious manners, and its wilder character, do not admit an easy approach to it.
. The Tenasserim Provinces seem to be a congenial place for this genus, for I dare to pron...
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File AvailableAlbrand, F. 1838 Extrait d'un memoire sur Zanzibar et sur Quiloa. Bulletin de la Societe de Geographie, Paris (2) 10: 65-84
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Africa - Eastern Africa - Tanzania
Distribution - Records
Black Rhino
The island of Quiloa is only separated from the continent by a small stretch of water. On the continent one finds all animals of the torrid zones, including the rhinoceros.
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File AvailablePallegoix, J.B. 1838 Lettre de M. Pallegoix. Bulletin de la Societe de Geographie, Paris (2) 10: 100-118
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Asian Rhino Species
From Xainat, one can see hills, which are polulated by all kinds of wild animals, including tigers, elephants, rhinoceros, wild buffalo, etc.
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File AvailableMoor, J.H. 1837 Notes on the Indian archipelago, and adjacent countries. Singapore, [no publisher], pp. i-viii, 1-276, 1-117
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Asia - South East Asia - Borneo
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Sumatran Rhino
A Sketch of Borneo, communicated by J. Hunt in 1812 to Sir T.S. Raffles - Fauna includes the badak or rhinoceros
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File AvailableAlexander, J.E. 1837 Latest intelligence from Captain Alexander. Journal of the Royal Geographical Society 7: 439-446
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Africa - Southern Africa - Namibia
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Black Rhino
The route would lead to Buffels Poort (through a field abounding with lions, cameleopards, rhinoceroses, bucks, etc.)
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File AvailableVerhuell, Q.M.R. 1836 Herinneringen van eene reis naar de Oost-Indie. Haarlem, Vincent Loosjes, vol. 2, pp. i-x, 1-247
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Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Java
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Javan Rhino
Keeping rhino within shallow moat. One day, the Indians in the regency of Kadoe had found the track of a rhinoceros in a remote forest. The resident then was told about it.
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File AvailableVerhuell, Q.M.R. 1836 Herinneringen van eene reis naar de Oost-Indie. Haarlem, Vincent Loosjes, vol. 2, pp. i-x, 1-247
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Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Java
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Javan Rhino
We found on the banks of the lake the fresh dung of a rhinoceros, who had defecated here shortly before. Our Javan guides assured us, that it truely had been this terrible animal.
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File AvailableLow, J. 1836 History of Tenasserim. Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland 3: 25-54, figs. 2-4
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Asian Rhino Species
The rhinoceros frequents the swampy banks of retired rivulets. The rhinoceros is found all the way down to the Malacca straits. It is frequent in the low tracts of Keddah and on the borders of that district of Keddah which was ceded to the British.
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File AvailablePallegoix, J.B. 1836 Notice sur le Laos. Bulletin de la Societe de Geographie, Paris (2) 5: 39-58
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Asia - East Asia - Laos
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Asian Rhino Species
Laos, like all countries with few inhabitants, has all kinds of wild animals [including] the rhinoceros.
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File AvailableOort, P. van; Mueller, S. 1833 Aanteekeningen gehouden op eene reise over een gedeelte van het eiland Java. Verhandelingen van het Bataviaasch Genootschap van Kunsten en Wetenschappen 16: 81-156
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Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Java
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Javan Rhino
On the north western side of the Patoeha mountain, in the steep valley called Tjiebodas, we found many tracks of the rhinoceros.
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File AvailableOort, P. van; Mueller, S. 1833 Aanteekeningen gehouden op eene reise over een gedeelte van het eiland Java. Verhandelingen van het Bataviaasch Genootschap van Kunsten en Wetenschappen 16: 81-156
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Javan Rhino
The dense forests of Tjielokotok are crossed by wild buffalo and rhinoceros, which leave a number of path through the jungle.
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File AvailableOort, P. van; Mueller, S. 1833 Aanteekeningen gehouden op eene reise over een gedeelte van het eiland Java. Verhandelingen van het Bataviaasch Genootschap van Kunsten en Wetenschappen 16: 81-156
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Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Java
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Javan Rhino
The Tjiematrie River has its source on the Tangkoebang Prahoe. In the forests on its banks there are found many wild buffalo and rhinoceroses, which come to bath here during the hot hours of the day.
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File AvailableOort, P. van; Mueller, S. 1833 Aanteekeningen gehouden op eene reise over een gedeelte van het eiland Java. Verhandelingen van het Bataviaasch Genootschap van Kunsten en Wetenschappen 16: 81-156
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Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Java
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Javan Rhino
On the Tankoeban Prahoe, we often found tracks of the rhinoceros.
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File AvailableBoie, H. 1832 Briefe, geschrieben aus Ostindien und auf der Reise dahin. Schleswig, Kg. Lautstummen-Institut, pp. 1-154
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Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Java
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Javan Rhino
tracks of rhinos seen on Tjitarem.
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File AvailableRoorda van Eysinga, S. 1831 Verschillende reizen en lotgevallen. Amsterdam, Johannes van der Hey en Zoon, vol. 2, pp. i-viii, 1-408
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Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Java
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Javan Rhino
Rhinoceroses found on the Salak mountain.
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File AvailableRaffles, T.S. 1830 Memoir of the life and public services of Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles. London, John Murray, pp. i-xvi, 1-723, 1-10
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Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Sumatra
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Asian Rhino Species
Letter by T.S. Raffles to Marsden, dated Bencoolen, 14 March 1820. I can only trace the two-horned animal in Sumatra. The white-banded animal which i have provisionally termed a rhinoceros, on account of the horn, must be an entirely new animal.
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File AvailableNagel, G.H. 1829 Javaansche tafereelen. Amsterdam, C.G. Sulpke, pp. i-vii, 1-176
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Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Java
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Javan Rhino
Rhinoceros, common on high mountains in Java, are absent from the Duizendgebergte (G. Seribu). Maybe it is not quiet enough, because these animal like uninhabited places.
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File AvailableNagel, G.H. 1829 Javaansche tafereelen. Amsterdam, C.G. Sulpke, pp. i-vii, 1-176
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Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Java
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Javan Rhino
The rhinoceros is very common on the high mountains of Java, like the Tjerimai.
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File AvailableNagel, G.H. 1828 Schetsen uit mijne Javaansche portefeuille. Amsterdam, C.G. Sulpke, pp. i-vii, 1-117
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Javan Rhino
Rhinoceroses are present in good numbers on the Tjerimai.
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File AvailableThompson, G. 1827 Travels and adventures in Southern Africa, comprising a view of the present state of the Cape Colony with observations on the progress and prospects of the Britsih emigrants. London, Henry Colburn, pp. i-xx, 1-493
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Black Rhino
From these wandering men, Arend and his comrade old Cupido Kackerlackie, I learned some interesting particulars The wanderers related many of their wild hunting adventures, especially in pursuit of the rhinoceros, which abounds in these regions, and is a very fierce and formidable animal.
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File AvailableDenham, D.; Clapperton, H. 1826 Narrative of travels and discoveries in Northern and Central Africa, in the years 1822, 1823, and 1824, extending across the great desert to the tenth degree of north latitude, and from Kouka in Bornou, to Sackatoo, the capital of the Fellatah Empire. London, John Murray, pp. i-xlviii, 1-335, i-iv, 1-272
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Africa - Western Africa - Chad
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Black Rhino
Horns. Locality: Chad. In coll. Dixon Denham and Hugh Clapperton, United Kingdom.
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File AvailableMoris, M. 1826 Miroir du pays ou relation des voyages de Sidi Aly fils d'Housain, nomme ordinairement Katibi Roumis, amiral de Soliman II, traduite sur la version allemande de M. de Diez (suite). Journal Asiatique 9: 193-217
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Asia - South Asia - Pakistan
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Indian Rhino
Travels of Sidi Aly or Katibi Roumis. We reached the town of Pourschewer and after passing the Koutel, we came to the town of Djouschayeh. On the Koutel, we saw rhinoceroses, of which the size was like that of a small elephant. Those rhinoceroses have a horn on the forehead which is two palmes...
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File AvailableAnderson, J. 1826 Mission to the East coast of Sumatra in 1823. Reprinted with an introduction by Nicholas Tarling (1971). London, Oxford University Press, pp. i-xviii, v-xxiii, 1-424
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Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Sumatra
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Sumatran Rhino
The rhinoceros occurs.
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File AvailableBurchell, W.J. 1825 A list of quadrupeds brought by Mr. Burchell from Southern Africa, and presented by him to the British Museum on the 30th of September, 1817. London, A.Spottiswoode, pp. 1-8
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Africa - Southern Africa - South Africa
Distribution - Records
Black Rhino
Skin. Locality: South Africa, Hot Station on the Moshowa River. Collected by: W. Burchell, 1817. In Natural History Museum, London, United Kingdom.
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File AvailableBurchell, W.J. 1825 A list of quadrupeds brought by Mr. Burchell from Southern Africa, and presented by him to the British Museum on the 30th of September, 1817. London, A.Spottiswoode, pp. 1-8
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Africa - Southern Africa - South Africa
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Black Rhino
11. Rhinoceros bicornis (9). Killed at `Hot Station' on the Moshowa River, in the Transgariepine, in company with its dam, on the 28th October, 1812.
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File AvailableBlume, C.L. 1825 Over de gesteldheid van het gebergte Gede. Verhandelingen van het Bataviaasch Genootschap van Kunsten en Wetenschappen 10: 55-104
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Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Java
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Javan Rhino
The frequent paths and tracks of the rhinoceros are evidence that this is one of his more favourite haunts, as the paths continue across the mountain up to the crater.
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File AvailableReinwardt, C.G.C. 1823 Over de hoogte en verdere natuurlijke gesteldheid van eenige bergen in de Preanger Regentschappen. Verhandelingen van het Bataviaasch Genootschap van Kunsten en Wetenschappen 9: 1-37
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Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Java
Distribution - Records
Javan Rhino
The rhinoceros has a habit to push on to the end of the highest mountain, and its paths have often been useful to us in the dense forest. These paths even extended to the top of the Patoeha and across the difficult Goenoeng Goentoer, over the sharp lava along the crater.
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File AvailableReinwardt, C.G.C. 1822 Account of a journey through the Preanger Regencies in Java. Edinburgh Philosophical Journal 7: 28-35
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Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Java
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Javan Rhino
Specimen. Locality: Java, Mountain of Papandayang. In Museum Naturalis, Leiden, The Netherlands.
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File AvailableReinwardt, C.G.C. 1822 Account of a journey through the Preanger Regencies in Java. Edinburgh Philosophical Journal 7: 28-35
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Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Java
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Javan Rhino
Specimen. Locality: Java, Mount Talaga Bodas. In Museum Naturalis, Leiden, The Netherlands.
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File AvailableBurckhardt, J.L. 1822 Travels in Nubia, 2nd ed. London, John Murray, pp. i-v, i-xcviii, 1-498
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Africa - Eastern Africa - Sudan
Distribution - Records
African Rhino Species
Between Katakou and Bahr el Ghazal flows the great river called Shary. There is an animal called Om Kergay, said to be as large as the rhinoceros, with very small head and mouth, but harmless. Its banks are inhabited by elephant, rhinoceroses, lions and giraffes.
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File AvailableReinwardt, C.G.C. 1822 Account of a journey through the Preanger Regencies in Java. Edinburgh Philosophical Journal 7: 28-35
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Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Java
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Javan Rhino
One rhinoceros was shot near the Mountain of Papandayang, and the other close to Mount Talaga Bodas. Both are secured to increase the collection of natural objects, which this succesful journey has procured for the Museum [in Leiden].
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File AvailableReinwardt, C.G.C. 1822 Account of a journey through the Preanger Regencies in Java. Edinburgh Philosophical Journal 7: 28-35
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Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Java
Distribution - Records
Javan Rhino
One rhinoceros was shot near the Mountain of Papandayang, and the other close to Mount Talaga Bodas. Both are secured to increase the collection of natural objects, which this succesful journey has procured for the Museum [in Leiden].
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File AvailableReinwardt, C.G.C. 1822 Account of a journey through the Preanger Regencies in Java. Edinburgh Philosophical Journal 7: 28-35
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Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Java
Distribution - Records
Javan Rhino
One rhinoceros was shot near the Mountain of Papandayang, and the other close to Mount Talaga Bodas. Both are secured to increase the collection of natural objects, which this succesful journey has procured for the Museum [in Leiden].
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File AvailableBurckhardt, J.L. 1822 Travels in Nubia, 2nd ed. London, John Murray, pp. i-v, i-xcviii, 1-498
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Africa - Eastern Africa - Sudan
Distribution - Records
African Rhino Species
Between Katakou and Bahr el Ghazal flows the great river called Shary. There is an animal called Om Kergay, said to be as large as the rhinoceros, with very small head and mouth, but harmless.
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File AvailableCamper, A.G. 1811 Description succincte du Musee de Pierre Camper. Amsterdam and La Haye, Freres van Cleef, pp. i-viii, 1-93
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Africa - Southern Africa - South Africa
Distribution - Records
Black Rhino
Skin. Locality: Cape of Good Hope. In coll. Petrus Camper, Klein Lankum, The Netherlands.Catalogue number: 65
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File AvailableCamper, A.G. 1811 Description succincte du Musee de Pierre Camper. Amsterdam and La Haye, Freres van Cleef, pp. i-viii, 1-93
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Black Rhino
Skull, two horns. Locality: Cape of Good Hope. In coll. Petrus Camper, Klein Lankum, The Netherlands. Catalogue number: 64
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File AvailableMarsden, W. 1811 The history of Sumatra, containing an account of the Government, laws, customs, and manners of the native inhabitants, with a description of the natural productions, and a relation of the ancient political state of that island, 3rd ed. London, Printed for the author, by J. McCreery, Black Horse Court, pp. i-viii, 1-479, 1-8
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Asian Rhino Species
The rhinoceros, both that with a single horn and the double-horned species are natives of these woods. The latter has been particularly described by the late ingenious Mr John Bell, one of the pupils of Mr John Hunter, in a paper in the Philos. Transactions for 1793.
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File AvailableCamper, A.G. 1809 Beschrijving van Camper's anatomisch, geologisch en mineralogisch kabinet op Klein Lankum bij Franeker. Jaarboeken van Wetenschap en Kunsten in Holland 1: 68-98
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Javan Rhino
Vertebrae. Locality: Java. In coll. Petrus Camper, Klein Lankum, The Netherlands.
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File AvailableDaniell, S. 1805 African scenery and animals. London, Samuel Daniell, pls. 1-30
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Black Rhino
The Rhinosceros is very common in the thickets on the eastern frontiers of the Colony.
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File AvailablePercival, R. 1804 An account of the Cape of Good Hope, containing an historical view of its original settlement by the Dutch, its capture by the British in 1795 and the different policy pursued there by the Dutch and British Government. London, C. and R. Baldwin, pp. i-xii, 1-339
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Black Rhino
The elephant, the rhinoceros and the camelopard live far in the interior.
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File AvailableSaar, J.J. 1672 Ost-Indianische funfzehen-jahrige Kriegs-Dienste, und wahrhafftige Beschreibung. Nuernberg, Johann Daniel Tauber, pp. [unpag], 1-168, index
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Javan Rhino
[Full text in original language]
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File AvailableFlacourt, E. de 1658 Histoire de la grande isle Madagascar. Paris, Alexandre Lesselin, pp. i-xxiii, 1-192, i-xviii, 193-384, 1-4
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African Rhino Species
Saw rhinoceros called Gabah after arrival at Saldanha Bay
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File AvailableHondius, J. 1652 Klare beghryving van Cabo de Bona Esperanca; med de by-gelegen kust naar Angola toe, van Cabo Negro af. Amsterdam, Jodocus Hondius, pp. 1-33, pl. 1
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African Rhino Species
Tafel-Bergh - Table Mountain, presence of rhinoceros
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File AvailableHondius, J. 1652 Klare beghryving van Cabo de Bona Esperanca; med de by-gelegen kust naar Angola toe, van Cabo Negro af. Amsterdam, Jodocus Hondius, pp. 1-33, pl. 1
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African Rhino Species
Mossel Bay - rhinoceros
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File AvailableCoryat, T. 1616 Travailler for the English Wits, and the good of his Kingdom: To all his inferiour countreymen, Greetings: Especially to the sirenicall gentlemen, that meets the first Friday of everie moneth at the Mermaids in Broadstreet From the Court of the Great M. London, [no publisher]
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Indian Rhino
(Visit of Great mogul jahangir at Ajmer) Hee keepeth abundance of wilde beasts, and that of divers sorts, as lyons, elephants, leopards, beares, antlops, unicornes; whereof two I have seene at his court, the strangest beasts of the world. They were brought hither out of the countrie of Bengala, ...
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File AvailableGodinho de Eredia, E. 1613 Malaca, l'Inde meridionale et le Cathay Manuscrit original autographe, appartenant a la Bibliotheque Royale de Bruxelles, reproduit en facsimile et traduit par M Leon Janssen. Bruxelles, C. Muquardt, not paginated
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Asian Rhino Species
Presence of rhinoceros recorded in Malaya.
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File AvailableBarlow, R. 1541 A brief summe of geographie

In: Taylor, E.G.R. A brief summe of geographie by Roger Barlow, edited with an introduction and notes. London, Hakluyt Society, Works Second Series, vol. 69: pp. i-lvi, 1-210
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Indian Rhino
In India - Bengala: . . . and ther the bestes called Rhynocerontes which be as elephants and almost of ther colour, thei be as bygg as a bull and is of making like a hogge saving he hathe his nose croked like a horn and is very hard, wherwith he fighteth with other beastes.
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