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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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Atkins menagerie in UK - list of specimens. a. From Mr. Atkin's Menagerie
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File AvailableGeoffroy St. Hilaire, I. 1842 Description des collections de Victor Jacquemont: Mammiferes et oiseaux. Paris, [no publisher], pp. 1-87, i-iv
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Victor Jacquemont did not see the rhinoceros in nature, but observed it in the menagerie of the Governor General of India. The animal was kept chained on one foot to a tree on the edge of a meadow. It came from the mountains on the other side of the Ganges.
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File AvailableJacquemont, V. 1841 Voyage dans l'Inde pendant les annees 1828 a 1832: Journal. Paris, Firmin Didot freres, vol. 1, pp. 1-3, i-iii, 1-526
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in 1829. In the menagerie of Barrackpour, I visited the rhinoceros. It is an adult specimen of the Unicornis species. He came from the mountains on the other side of the Ganges. His size is the same as the one in the Paris Museum. It is chained around his legs to a tree. It eats plants. Hi...
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File AvailableHodgson, B.H. 1834 On the mammalia of Nepal. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1834 August 26: 95-104
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One, taken mature, was kept at Katmandoo for 35 years withoit exhibiting any symptoms of approaching decline. An individual was born in Katmandoo eight years ago.
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File AvailableHodgson, B.H. 1825 Remarks on the procreation of the rhinoceros. Quarterly Oriental Magazine: review and register 3 (5): 155-156
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Hodgson observed the habits of a male and female rhinoceros kept in the Menagerie of the Raja of Nipal. He states that about 18 months prior to May 1824 a male and female voluntarily associated and that the result after an interval from 17 to 18 months was a fine male cub. Hodgson first saw the ...
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File AvailableRudolphi, K.A. 1806 Bemerkungen aus dem Gebiet der Naturgeschichte, Medicin und Thierarzneykunde, auf einer Reise durch einen Theil von Deutschland, Holland und Frankreich, gesammelt. Berlin, Realschulbuchhandlung, vol. 1, pp. i-viii, 1-296
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When in Paris, I saw a plastercast of the penis of the rhinoceros. I also looked at the beautiful drawings made by Vicq d'Azyr of the inner parts of the animal.
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File AvailableDouwe Mout 1754 Exhibition of a rhinoceros [Clara] in Königsberg, Germany. Document in Geheimes Staatsarchiv Preußischer Kulturbesitz
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File AvailablePinchbeck 1752 Exhibition of Curious Performances in Ipswich. Ipswich Journal - Saturday 25 November 1752
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File AvailableAnonymous 1750 Exhibition of rhinoceros in Colorno (near Parma) and Borgo Sandovino (Fidenza). Oprechte Haerlemsche Courant Thursday 15-10-1750 (no. 42): 2
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Anonymous, 1750. Exhibition of rhinoceros in Colorno (near Parma) and Borgo Sandovino (Fidenza). Oprechte Haerlemsche Courant Thursday 15-10-1750 (no. 42): 2
Florence 26 September. …
Uyt Parma heeft men, dat de gearriveerde en van ‘t geheele Hof te Colorno bezigtigde Rhinoceros van daar...
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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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(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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