Reference Base Notes for: White Rhino back to search page Sort order: ------------------- Date ASC Author normal    (42)  ... 37 38 39 40 41 ...   Renshaw, G. 1904 Natural history essays. London and Manchester, Sherratt and Hughes, pp. i-xv, 1-218 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Western Africa Museums White Rhino . Locality: Central Africa. Collected by: Denham & Clapperton, 1822-1824. In Natural History Museum, London, United Kingdom.   details Renshaw, G. 1904 Natural history essays. London and Manchester, Sherratt and Hughes, pp. i-xv, 1-218 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - Zimbabwe Museums White Rhino Anterior horn. Locality: Zimbabwe. Found by Mr Penfold. In coll. Graham Renshaw, United Kingdom   details Renshaw, G. 1904 Natural history essays. London and Manchester, Sherratt and Hughes, pp. i-xv, 1-218 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - South Africa Museums White Rhino Skeleton. Sex: Female. Locality: Cape of Good Hope. Collected by: Verreaux, Ed., 1846. In Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris, France.   details Renshaw, G. 1904 Natural history essays. London and Manchester, Sherratt and Hughes, pp. i-xv, 1-218 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - South Africa Museums White Rhino Skin. Locality: South Africa, Zululand. Collected by: Varndell, C.R., 1894. In coll. Transvaal Museum, Pretoria, South Africa. Donated by Carl Jeppe   details Renshaw, G. 1904 Natural history essays. London and Manchester, Sherratt and Hughes, pp. i-xv, 1-218 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - Zimbabwe Distribution - Records White Rhino Skull. Sex: Male. Locality: Zimbabwe, Mashonaland. Collected by: Selous, F.C., 1882. In South African Museum, Cape Town, South Africa.   details Renshaw, G. 1904 Natural history essays. London and Manchester, Sherratt and Hughes, pp. i-xv, 1-218 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - South Africa Distribution - Records White Rhino Skull. Locality: South Africa. Collected by: Gordon Cumming, R.. In Royal College of Surgeons of England, London, United Kingdom.   details Renshaw, G. 1904 Natural history essays. London and Manchester, Sherratt and Hughes, pp. i-xv, 1-218 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - South Africa Distribution - Records White Rhino Young, in spirits. Locality: South Africa. Collected by: Baines, Thomas, 1862. In Royal College of Surgeons of England, London, United Kingdom.   details Renshaw, G. 1904 Natural history essays. London and Manchester, Sherratt and Hughes, pp. i-xv, 1-218 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - South Africa Distribution - Records White Rhino Head. Locality: South Africa. Collected by: Campbell, John, 1815. In coll. London Missionary Society, London, United Kingdom   details Renshaw, G. 1904 Natural history essays. London and Manchester, Sherratt and Hughes, pp. i-xv, 1-218 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - South Africa Distribution - Records White Rhino A calf obtained in 1836 by SirAndrew Smith's expedition. This animal was mounted by the celebrated taxidermist, Jules Verreaux, under Sir Andrew's personal superintendence, and added to the South African Museum at Capetown. Subsequently it was either sold to or received in exchange by the Briti...   details Renshaw, G. 1904 Natural history essays. London and Manchester, Sherratt and Hughes, pp. i-xv, 1-218 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - Zimbabwe Museums White Rhino Hide. Sex: Male. Locality: Zimbabwe, Mashonaland. Collected by: Coryndon, R.T., 1893. In coll. Tring Museum, Tring, United Kingdom   details Renshaw, G. 1904 Natural history essays. London and Manchester, Sherratt and Hughes, pp. i-xv, 1-218 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - Zimbabwe Museums White Rhino Skeleton. Sex: Male. Locality: Zimbabwe, Mashonaland. Collected by: Coryndon, R.T., 1893. In Natural History Museum, London, United Kingdom.   details Renshaw, G. 1904 Natural history essays. London and Manchester, Sherratt and Hughes, pp. i-xv, 1-218 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - Zimbabwe Museums White Rhino Skin, young adult. Sex: Male. Locality: Zimbabwe, Mashonaland. Collected by: Coryndon, R.T., 1893. In Natural History Museum, London, United Kingdom.   details Renshaw, G. 1904 Natural history essays. London and Manchester, Sherratt and Hughes, pp. i-xv, 1-218 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Ethiopia Museums White Rhino Horns. Locality: Abyssinia. Collected by: Salt, Henry, 1811. In Royal College of Surgeons of England, London, United Kingdom.   details Renshaw, G. 1904 Natural history essays. London and Manchester, Sherratt and Hughes, pp. i-xv, 1-218 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - South Africa Distribution - Records White Rhino Head with horns. Locality: Cape. Collected by: Burke, for Lord Derby. In coll. Liverpool Museum, United Kingdom.   details Renshaw, G. 1904 Natural history essays. London and Manchester, Sherratt and Hughes, pp. i-xv, 1-218 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - South Africa Museums White Rhino A calf obtained in 1836 by SirAndrew Smith's expedition. This animal was mounted by the celebrated taxidermist, Jules Verreaux, under Sir Andrew's personal superintendence, and added to the South African Museum at Capetown. Subsequently it was either sold to or received in exchange by the Briti...   details Renshaw, G. 1904 Natural history essays. London and Manchester, Sherratt and Hughes, pp. i-xv, 1-218 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Ethiopia Distribution - Records White Rhino Horns. Locality: Abyssinia. Collected by: Salt, Henry, 1811. In Royal College of Surgeons of England, London, United Kingdom.   details Renshaw, G. 1904 Natural history essays. London and Manchester, Sherratt and Hughes, pp. i-xv, 1-218 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - Zimbabwe Museums White Rhino Skeleton. Sex: Male. Locality: Zimbabwe. Collected by: Eyre, Arthur, 1895. In South African Museum, Cape Town, South Africa. Donated by Cecil Rhodes   details Renshaw, G. 1904 Natural history essays. London and Manchester, Sherratt and Hughes, pp. i-xv, 1-218 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - Zimbabwe Museums White Rhino Mounted skin. Sex: Male. Locality: Zimbabwe. Collected by: Eyre, Arthur, 1895. In South African Museum, Cape Town, South Africa. Donated by Cecil Rhodes   details Renshaw, G. 1904 Natural history essays. London and Manchester, Sherratt and Hughes, pp. i-xv, 1-218 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - South Africa Museums White Rhino Young, in spirits. Locality: South Africa. Collected by: Baines, Thomas, 1862. In Royal College of Surgeons of England, London, United Kingdom.   details Renshaw, G. 1904 Natural history essays. London and Manchester, Sherratt and Hughes, pp. i-xv, 1-218 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Western Africa Distribution - Records White Rhino . Locality: Central Africa. Collected by: Denham & Clapperton, 1822-1824. In Natural History Museum, London, United Kingdom.   details Renshaw, G. 1904 Natural history essays. London and Manchester, Sherratt and Hughes, pp. i-xv, 1-218 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - Zimbabwe Distribution - Records White Rhino Hide. Sex: Male. Locality: Zimbabwe, Mashonaland. Collected by: Coryndon, R.T., 1893. In coll. Tring Museum, Tring, United Kingdom   details Renshaw, G. 1904 Natural history essays. London and Manchester, Sherratt and Hughes, pp. i-xv, 1-218 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - Zimbabwe Distribution - Records White Rhino Mounted skin. Sex: Male. Locality: Zimbabwe. Collected by: Eyre, Arthur, 1895. In South African Museum, Cape Town, South Africa. Donated by Cecil Rhodes   details Renshaw, G. 1904 Natural history essays. London and Manchester, Sherratt and Hughes, pp. i-xv, 1-218 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - Zimbabwe Distribution - Records White Rhino Skeleton. Sex: Male. Locality: Zimbabwe. Collected by: Eyre, Arthur, 1895. In South African Museum, Cape Town, South Africa. Donated by Cecil Rhodes   details Renshaw, G. 1904 Natural history essays. London and Manchester, Sherratt and Hughes, pp. i-xv, 1-218 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - South Africa Distribution - Records White Rhino Anterior horn, record. Locality: South Africa. Collected by: Gordon Cumming, R.. In coll. W. Gordon Cumming, United Kingdom   details Renshaw, G. 1904 Natural history essays. London and Manchester, Sherratt and Hughes, pp. i-xv, 1-218 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - South Africa Distribution - Records White Rhino Skull. Locality: Cape. Collected by: Burke, for Lord Derby. In coll. Liverpool Museum, United Kingdom.   details Renshaw, G. 1904 Natural history essays. London and Manchester, Sherratt and Hughes, pp. i-xv, 1-218 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - South Africa Distribution - Records White Rhino Skeleton. Sex: Female. Locality: Cape of Good Hope. Collected by: Verreaux, Ed., 1846. In Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris, France.   details Renshaw, G. 1904 Natural history essays. London and Manchester, Sherratt and Hughes, pp. i-xv, 1-218 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - South Africa Distribution - Records White Rhino Skin. Locality: South Africa, Zululand. Collected by: Varndell, C.R., 1894. In coll. Transvaal Museum, Pretoria, South Africa. Donated by Carl Jeppe   details Renshaw, G. 1904 Natural history essays. London and Manchester, Sherratt and Hughes, pp. i-xv, 1-218 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - South Africa Distribution - Records White Rhino Skin of adult. Sex: Female. Locality: Cape Colony. In Museum Naturalis, Leiden, The Netherlands.   details Renshaw, G. 1904 Natural history essays. London and Manchester, Sherratt and Hughes, pp. i-xv, 1-218 Location: Subject: Species: World Morphology - Horn White Rhino 2. When Denham and Clapperton returned home from their Central African expedition of 1822-24, they presented to the British Museum two remarkable light-coloured and transparent horns. It is interesting to remember that the horns of the white rhinoceros are pale-coloured on section, and that Sir...   details Renshaw, G. 1904 Natural history essays. London and Manchester, Sherratt and Hughes, pp. i-xv, 1-218 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - Botswana Distribution - Records White Rhino Dr. Gunning, of the Pretoria Museum and Zoological Gardens, kindly informs me that four individuals still linger near Lake Ngami: there were eleven before the outbreak of the war in 1899, four in Zululand, and seven near Ngami.   details Renshaw, G. 1904 Natural history essays. London and Manchester, Sherratt and Hughes, pp. i-xv, 1-218 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - South Africa Distribution - Records White Rhino reduction in numbers - Ceratotherium simum. The first definite sign of the decadence of Rhinoceros simus which appears on studying the history of the species, is a circumstance related by Sir Andrew Smith. He tells us that when his expedition of 1836 passed into Bechuanaland, the white rhinocer...   details Renshaw, G. 1904 Natural history essays. London and Manchester, Sherratt and Hughes, pp. i-xv, 1-218 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - Botswana Distribution - Records White Rhino In 1903, Dr. Gunning, of the Pretoria Museum and Zoological Gardens, kindly informs me that four individuals still linger near Lake Ngami: there were eleven before the outbreak of the war in 1899, four in Zululand, and seven near Ngami.   details Gibbons, A.St.H. 1904 Africa from south to north through Marotseland. London and New York, John Lane, vol. 1, pp. i-xxi, 1-297; vol. 2, pp. i-xix, 1-276 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Uganda Distribution - Records White Rhino At Lado. In the hunting veldt I was able to add several specimens to my collection, the most interesting being the skin of a white rhino (R. Simus) hitherto not known to exist in North Africa. Now in Pittsburgh.   details Renshaw, G. 1904 Natural history essays. London and Manchester, Sherratt and Hughes, pp. i-xv, 1-218 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Uganda Distribution - Records White Rhino The skull and horns of an undoubted white rhinoceros, shot by Major Gibbons at Lado, on the Upper Nile, were exhibited at a meeting of the Zoological Society, held on December 18th, 1900.   details Renshaw, G. 1904 Natural history essays. London and Manchester, Sherratt and Hughes, pp. i-xv, 1-218 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - Zimbabwe Distribution - Records White Rhino Ceratotherium simum. 1893. Two adult bulls were shot in July, in Mashonaland, by Mr. R. C. Coryndon. 1895. A fine bull was shot by Mr. Eyre in North Mashonaland. Roberts 1913   details Renshaw, G. 1904 Natural history essays. London and Manchester, Sherratt and Hughes, pp. i-xv, 1-218 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Uganda Distribution - Records White Rhino The above evidence, both recent and remote, thus proves the distribution of the white rhinoceros to be far wider than was formerly supposed. A great portion of the newly-discovered home of simus lies within the boundaries of a British Protectorate - Uganda. It is therefore to be hoped that this...   details Renshaw, G. 1904 Natural history essays. London and Manchester, Sherratt and Hughes, pp. i-xv, 1-218 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - South Africa Distribution - Records White Rhino 1897. The spoor of a bull and a cow were seen in Matawamba by Mr. F. V. Kirby.   details Renshaw, G. 1904 Natural history essays. London and Manchester, Sherratt and Hughes, pp. i-xv, 1-218 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - South Africa Distribution - Records White Rhino Ceratotherium simum. 1894 - Six animals were killed in Zululand by the late Mr. C. R. Varndell and a friend.   details Renshaw, G. 1904 Natural history essays. London and Manchester, Sherratt and Hughes, pp. i-xv, 1-218 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - South Africa Distribution - Records White Rhino The following is the scanty list of the appearances of R. simus since 1890: 1892. Messrs. Eyre and Coryndon, in August, 1892, saw a bull, cow and calf all together: the next day they met a large cow, a half-grown individual, and a calf. The calf died in captivity after a few days....   details Renshaw, G. 1904 Natural history essays. London and Manchester, Sherratt and Hughes, pp. i-xv, 1-218 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - South Africa Distribution - Records White Rhino Subsequent investigations have demonstrated that the white rhinoceros was once widely distributed over South Africa, wherever the grasslands were adapted to its habits, extending from the Orange River in the south as far north as the Zambesi. We may conveniently take 1812 as representing the era...   details Renshaw, G. 1904 Natural history essays. London and Manchester, Sherratt and Hughes, pp. i-xv, 1-218 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - South Africa Distribution - Records White Rhino before outbreak of war in 1899 there were 4 in Zululand. According to a more recent estimate, however, about ten white rhinoceroses still in Zululand. In December 1902, an old bull and a younger one `escaped' into a native reservation, where they were promptly killed (See Field for March 21, 19...   details Renshaw, G. 1904 Natural history essays. London and Manchester, Sherratt and Hughes, pp. i-xv, 1-218 Location: Subject: Species: World Morphology - Horn White Rhino The anterior horn of the white rhinoceros shows great individual differences of curvature: two well marked types may be recognised. The first type (mohohu) is the commoner: the horn is curved backwards. The second type (kabaoba) is directed forwards, so that the anterior surface is often m...   details Renshaw, G. 1904 Natural history essays. London and Manchester, Sherratt and Hughes, pp. i-xv, 1-218 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - South Africa Names in vernacular White Rhino Chuckuroo   details Renshaw, G. 1904 Natural history essays. London and Manchester, Sherratt and Hughes, pp. i-xv, 1-218 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - South Africa Names in vernacular White Rhino Mohohu   details Renshaw, G. 1904 Natural history essays. London and Manchester, Sherratt and Hughes, pp. i-xv, 1-218 Location: Subject: Species: World Morphology White Rhino Eye situated entirely behind line of second horn.   details Renshaw, G. 1904 Natural history essays. London and Manchester, Sherratt and Hughes, pp. i-xv, 1-218 Location: Subject: Species: World Morphology White Rhino Feet broad, leaving a wide spoor or footmark about 36 in. circumference. (Kirby).   details Renshaw, G. 1904 Natural history essays. London and Manchester, Sherratt and Hughes, pp. i-xv, 1-218 Location: Subject: Species: World Ecology - Interspecific Relations White Rhino these colossi were continually attended by their winged sentinels, the faithful rhinoceros bird (Buphaga africana), ever alert to give their dull-witted hosts notice of approaching danger by their shrill cries, or by thrusting their beaks into their ears.   details Renshaw, G. 1904 Natural history essays. London and Manchester, Sherratt and Hughes, pp. i-xv, 1-218 Location: Subject: Species: Captive - Africa Captivity - Zoo Records White Rhino 1891. Messrs. Eyre and Coryndon, in August, 1892, saw a bull, cow and calf all together: the next day they met a large cow, a half-grown individual, and a calf. The calf died in captivity after a few days.   details Renshaw, G. 1904 Natural history essays. London and Manchester, Sherratt and Hughes, pp. i-xv, 1-218 Location: Subject: Species: World Morphology White Rhino There appears to be a distinct tendency to true albinism in the white rhinoceros. Individuals have been met which were really white, or at least whitish. Sir Cornwallis Harris, who saw many simus during his famous expedition of 1836-7, says of this animal - 'His true complexion..... often appro...   details Renshaw, G. 1904 Natural history essays. London and Manchester, Sherratt and Hughes, pp. i-xv, 1-218 Location: Subject: Species: World Morphology White Rhino It will be noted that in the above account no reference has been made to colour as a distinguishing mark of the white rhinoceros. Colour plays but little part in differentiating between the so-called 'white' and 'black' rhinoceroses, since both are of a dull slaty grey. Several explanations of...   details Renshaw, G. 1904 Natural history essays. London and Manchester, Sherratt and Hughes, pp. i-xv, 1-218 Location: Subject: Species: World Morphology White Rhino Feet broad, leaving a wide spoor or footmark about 36 in. circumference. (Kirby).   details Renshaw, G. 1904 Natural history essays. London and Manchester, Sherratt and Hughes, pp. i-xv, 1-218 Location: Subject: Species: World Morphology White Rhino Ears semi-tubular and scantily tufted.   details Renshaw, G. 1904 Natural history essays. London and Manchester, Sherratt and Hughes, pp. i-xv, 1-218 Location: Subject: Species: World Morphology White Rhino It will be noted that in the above account no reference has been made to colour as a distinguishing mark of the white rhinoceros. Colour plays but little part in differentiating between the so-called 'white' and 'black' rhinoceroses, since both are of a dull slaty grey. Several explanations of...   details Renshaw, G. 1904 Natural history essays. London and Manchester, Sherratt and Hughes, pp. i-xv, 1-218 Location: Subject: Species: World Morphology White Rhino There appears to be a distinct tendency to true albinism in the white rhinoceros. Individuals have been met which were really white, or at least whitish. Sir Cornwallis Harris, who saw many simus during his famous expedition of 1836-7, says of this animal - 'His true complexion..... often appro...   details Renshaw, G. 1904 Natural history essays. London and Manchester, Sherratt and Hughes, pp. i-xv, 1-218 Location: Subject: Species: World Morphology White Rhino Nostrils slit-like, elongated, and narrow.   details Renshaw, G. 1904 Natural history essays. London and Manchester, Sherratt and Hughes, pp. i-xv, 1-218 Location: Subject: Species: World Morphology - Size White Rhino Tail 2 feet long   details Renshaw, G. 1904 Natural history essays. London and Manchester, Sherratt and Hughes, pp. i-xv, 1-218 Location: Subject: Species: World Morphology - Size White Rhino Maximum weight estimated at 5000 pounds (Andersson).   details Renshaw, G. 1904 Natural history essays. London and Manchester, Sherratt and Hughes, pp. i-xv, 1-218 Location: Subject: Species: World Morphology White Rhino Upper lip square, non-prehensile and adapted for grazing.   details Renshaw, G. 1904 Natural history essays. London and Manchester, Sherratt and Hughes, pp. i-xv, 1-218 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - Zimbabwe Captivity - Zoo Records White Rhino In captivity the white rhinoceros has proved a most disappointin animal, dying even when taken quite young from no obvious cause. None of the calves which have been captured from time to time have survived long enough to be taken down country, to say nothing of being brought to Europe, so that t...   details Renshaw, G. 1904 Natural history essays. London and Manchester, Sherratt and Hughes, pp. i-xv, 1-218 Location: Subject: Species: World Morphology White Rhino Upper lip square, non-prehensile and adapted for grazing.   details Renshaw, G. 1904 Natural history essays. London and Manchester, Sherratt and Hughes, pp. i-xv, 1-218 Location: Subject: Species: World Morphology White Rhino Eye situated entirely behind line of second horn.   details Renshaw, G. 1904 Natural history essays. London and Manchester, Sherratt and Hughes, pp. i-xv, 1-218 Location: Subject: Species: World Morphology White Rhino Ears semi-tubular and scantily tufted.   details Renshaw, G. 1904 Natural history essays. London and Manchester, Sherratt and Hughes, pp. i-xv, 1-218 Location: Subject: Species: World Morphology - Horn White Rhino The posterior horn is often little more than a mere dermal excrescence, and it was probably from this cause that the natives in Sir A. Smith's day informed him that a race of one-horned rhinoceroses inhabited South Africa.   details Renshaw, G. 1904 Natural history essays. London and Manchester, Sherratt and Hughes, pp. i-xv, 1-218 Location: Subject: Species: World Morphology - Size White Rhino Maximum recorded length of anterior horn (mohohu) 62 ? inches: of anterior horn (kabaoba) 56 ? inches. Maximum recorded length of posterior horn two feet. Mounted specimen Tring Museum - anterior 1 ft 11 inch, posterior 8 inch Young adult male in BMNH - anterior 1 ft 7 inch, posterior 7 inch...   details Renshaw, G. 1904 Natural history essays. London and Manchester, Sherratt and Hughes, pp. i-xv, 1-218 Location: Subject: Species: World Morphology White Rhino Nostrils slit-like, elongated, and narrow.   details Renshaw, G. 1904 Natural history essays. London and Manchester, Sherratt and Hughes, pp. i-xv, 1-218 Location: Subject: Species: World Taxonomy - Nomenclature White Rhino In 1812 Dr. Burchell found the white rhinoceros abundant in the Batlapin country, near Letakoo (Kuruman), the species being first met with in 26 deg. S. latitude. Science is indebted to Burchell for the first definite account of Rhinoceros simus: a short description of the animal, which he comm...   details Renshaw, G. 1904 Natural history essays. London and Manchester, Sherratt and Hughes, pp. i-xv, 1-218 Location: Subject: Species: World Taxonomy - Nomenclature White Rhino The second type (kabaoba) is directed forwards, so that the anterior surface is often much worn by repeated contact with the ground when its owner grazes: this is well seen in the type kabaoba horn which Col. Steele presented to the British Museum many years ago. The kabaoba was long described a...   details Renshaw, G. 1904 Natural history essays. London and Manchester, Sherratt and Hughes, pp. i-xv, 1-218 Location: Subject: Species: World Morphology - Size White Rhino Mounted specimen in Tring (Coryndon, 1893) - 6 ft. 9 inch Adult male mounted in BMNH, height 6 ft 6 inch.   details Renshaw, G. 1904 Natural history essays. London and Manchester, Sherratt and Hughes, pp. i-xv, 1-218 Location: Subject: Species: World Morphology - Size White Rhino 16 feet measured from the base of the anterior horn to the tip of the tail. Mounted specimen Tring Museum, base of anterior horn to tip of tail 16 ft. Young adult male in BMNH, base of horn to top of tail 14 ft 6 inch   details Anonymous 1904 Death of Jim, the Indian rhinoceros. Field, the country gentleman's magazine 104 (2711), 1904 December 10: 1031 Location: Subject: Species: Captive - Europe Captivity White Rhino No details available yet   details Sclater, P.L. 1903 Exhibition of, and remarks upon, the horns of a rhinoceros from the White Nile. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1903 November 3: 194-195, fig. 21 Location: Subject: Species: Museums - Europe Museums White Rhino Anterior horn. In Natural History Museum, London, United Kingdom.   details Scherren, H. 1903 Exhibition of, and remarks upon, a horn of Rhinoceros simus. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1903 November 17: 316 Location: Subject: Species: Museums - Europe Museums White Rhino Horn. Locality: Sudan. In coll. Col. B.T. Mahom, United Kingdom.   details Scherren, H. 1903 Exhibition of, and remarks upon, a horn of Rhinoceros simus. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1903 November 17: 316 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Sudan Distribution - Records White Rhino Horn. Locality: Sudan. In coll. Col. B.T. Mahom, United Kingdom.   details Scherren, H. 1903 Exhibition of, and remarks upon, a horn of Rhinoceros simus. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1903 November 17: 316 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Sudan Distribution - Records White Rhino Fairly numerous on the northern boundary of the Congo Free State and in the adjacent parts of the Soudan.   details Scherren, H. 1903 Exhibition of, and remarks upon, a horn of Rhinoceros simus. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1903 November 17: 316 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Sudan Distribution - Records White Rhino Fairly numerous on the northern boundary of the Congo Free State and in the adjacent parts of the Soudan.   details Sclater, P.L. 1903 Exhibition of, and remarks upon, the horns of a rhinoceros from the White Nile. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1903 November 3: 194-195, fig. 21 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Sudan Distribution - Records White Rhino The horn of an example of R. simus, which I now exhibit [and also on fig. 21], was obtained by my friend Capt. Claude Hawker (Commander of the 10 th Soudanese Bataillon) from the Belgian officers at Lado in the autumn of 1902, and was taken from a specimen unquestionably shot in that district, on...   details Newton, A. 1903 Exhibition of, and remarks upon, photographs of the white rhinoceros taken by C R Saunders. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1903 (1): 222-224, figs. 39-40 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - South Africa Distribution - Records White Rhino Saunders was Chief Magistrate and Civil Commissioner in Zululand I visited the reserve in which they lived for this special purpose [of acquiring a photo] last winter [1902]. Their traces were abundant, but my time was limited, and they could not be found. There are, I believe, about ten of th...   details Newton, A. 1903 Exhibition of, and remarks upon, photographs of the white rhinoceros taken by C R Saunders. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1903 (1): 222-224, figs. 39-40 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - South Africa Distribution - Records White Rhino Saunders was Chief Magistrate and Civil Commissioner in Zululand. I visited the reserve in which they lived for this special purpose [of acquiring a photo] last winter [1902]. Their traces were abundant, but my time was limited, and they could not be found. There are, I believe, about ten of t...   details Sclater, P.L. 1903 Exhibition of, and remarks upon, the horns of a rhinoceros from the White Nile. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1903 November 3: 194-195, fig. 21 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Sudan Morphology - Horn White Rhino The front horn of R. simus may always be distinguished from the corresponding horn of R. bicornis by its broad, flattened surface at the base in front, the basal front of this horn in R. bicornis being more or less smooth and rounded and projecting in the centre.   details Scherren, H. 1903 Exhibition of, and remarks upon, a horn of Rhinoceros simus. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1903 November 17: 316 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Sudan History White Rhino Exhibits front horn from Soudan, property of Col. B.T. Mahom, length 36 1/4 inches. Mr Rowland ward had known of these horns coming from that district for many years before Major Gibbons secured his specimen.   details Scherren, H. 1903 Exhibition of, and remarks upon, a horn of Rhinoceros simus. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1903 November 17: 316 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Sudan Morphology - Size White Rhino Ceratotherium simum cottoni . Horn property of B.Y. Mahom from Soudan. Measured along the anterior curve 36 1/4 inches, circumference at the base 19 3/4 inches   details Sclater, P.L. 1903 Exhibition of, and remarks upon, the horns of a rhinoceros from the White Nile. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1903 November 3: 194-195, fig. 21 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Sudan Morphology - Size White Rhino Illustrates front horn of white rhino shot near Lado, Sudan, measuring 31 inches in a straight line from the base to the end.   details Grogan, E.S. 1903 Hunting rhinoceros on the Upper Nile. Idler: an illustrated monthly magazine 22 (5): 606-613 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Congo (Zaire) Distribution White Rhino No details available yet   details Lydekker, R. 1903 Indian rhinoceros at South Kensington. Field, the country gentleman's magazine 101 (2616), 1903 February 14: 265 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South Asia - India Museums White Rhino No details available yet   details Grogan, E.S. 1902 Hunting rhinoceros on the Upper Nile. Outing, an illustrated monthly magazine of recreation 40 (6): 685-692, figs. 1-2 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Uganda Distribution White Rhino No details available yet   details Nehring, A. 1901 Ein Schaedel des Rhinoceros simus im Naturhist. Museum zu Hamburg. Zoologische Anzeiger 24: 225-228, fig. 1 Location: Subject: Species: World Morphology - Skull White Rhino skull in mus. Hamburg; Individual not quite adult, as the last upper molar is not fully erupted. The shape of the skull, compared to R. bicornis and R. keitloa, is quite elongated. The Crista of the rear part is relatively strongly developed and goes back far beyond the condylen. The incisor p...   details Thomas, O. 1901 Notes on the type specimen of Rhinoceros lasiotis Sclater, with remarks on the generic position of the living species of rhinoceros. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1901 June 4: 154-158 Location: Subject: Species: World Taxonomy White Rhino Should D.simus, on the ground of its much longer skull and the different structure of its molars, be separate generically or subgenerically from D. bicornis, it and its fossil allies would have to bear the name of Coelodonta, Bronn.   details Nehring, A. 1901 Ein Schaedel des Rhinoceros simus im Naturhist. Museum zu Hamburg. Zoologische Anzeiger 24: 225-228, fig. 1 Location: Subject: Species: World Morphology - Size White Rhino Skull in mus. Hamburg. Individual not quite adult, as the last upper molar is not fully erupted. Total length 830 mm, that means it is larger than the adult skull figured by Blainville (Osteographie, Ongulogrades, taf. IV), as well as two skulls measured by Gray (Cat. Mammalia, 1869, p. 324). W...   details Sclater, W.L. 1900 The mammals of South Africa, vol I: Primates, carnivora and ungulata. London, R.H. Porter, pp. i-xxxi, 1-324 Location: Subject: Species: Museums - Africa Museums White Rhino Head. Sex: Male. Locality: Zimbabwe, between the Bembesi and Sebakwi Rivers, halfway between Bulawayo and Salisbury. Collected by: Selous, F.C., 1882. In South African Museum, Cape Town, South Africa.   details Sclater, W.L. 1900 The mammals of South Africa, vol I: Primates, carnivora and ungulata. London, R.H. Porter, pp. i-xxxi, 1-324 Location: Subject: Species: Museums - Africa Museums White Rhino Mounted skin, skeleton. Sex: Male. Locality: Zimbabwe, north of the Ayrshire mine near Mazoe, in northeast Mashonaland. Collected by: Eyre, Arthur, 1895. In South African Museum, Cape Town, South Africa. Donated by Cecil Rhodes   details Sclater, W.L. 1900 The mammals of South Africa, vol I: Primates, carnivora and ungulata. London, R.H. Porter, pp. i-xxxi, 1-324 Location: Subject: Species: Museums - Africa Museums White Rhino Skull, imperfect, dug out from soil. Locality: South Africa, about twelve miles from the Vaal River in the Kimberley district. Collected: 1893. In South African Museum, Cape Town, South Africa.   details Sclater, W.L. 1900 The mammals of South Africa, vol I: Primates, carnivora and ungulata. London, R.H. Porter, pp. i-xxxi, 1-324 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - Zimbabwe Museums White Rhino Head. Sex: Male. Locality: Zimbabwe, between the Bembesi and Sebakwi Rivers, halfway between Bulawayo and Salisbury. Collected by: Selous, F.C., 1882. In South African Museum, Cape Town, South Africa.   details Sclater, W.L. 1900 The mammals of South Africa, vol I: Primates, carnivora and ungulata. London, R.H. Porter, pp. i-xxxi, 1-324 Location: Subject: Species: Museums - North America Museums White Rhino Skull. Locality: Sudan, Lado Enclave. Collected by: Gibbons, Major A.St.Hill. In coll. Carnegie Museum, Pittsburgh, USA.   details Sclater, W.L. 1900 The mammals of South Africa, vol I: Primates, carnivora and ungulata. London, R.H. Porter, pp. i-xxxi, 1-324 Location: Subject: Species: Museums - Africa Museums White Rhino Skin. Locality: South Africa, Zululand. In coll. Transvaal Museum, Pretoria, South Africa   details Sclater, W.L. 1900 The mammals of South Africa, vol I: Primates, carnivora and ungulata. London, R.H. Porter, pp. i-xxxi, 1-324 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - Zimbabwe Distribution - Records White Rhino Mounted skin, skeleton. Sex: Male. Locality: Zimbabwe, north of the Ayrshire mine near Mazoe, in northeast Mashonaland. Collected by: Eyre, Arthur, 1895. In South African Museum, Cape Town, South Africa. Donated by Cecil Rhodes   details Sclater, W.L. 1900 The mammals of South Africa, vol I: Primates, carnivora and ungulata. London, R.H. Porter, pp. i-xxxi, 1-324 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - Zimbabwe Distribution - Records White Rhino Head. Sex: Male. Locality: Zimbabwe, between the Bembesi and Sebakwi Rivers, halfway between Bulawayo and Salisbury. Collected by: Selous, F.C., 1882. In South African Museum, Cape Town, South Africa.   details Sclater, W.L. 1900 The mammals of South Africa, vol I: Primates, carnivora and ungulata. London, R.H. Porter, pp. i-xxxi, 1-324 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Sudan Museums White Rhino Skull. Locality: Sudan, Lado Enclave. Collected by: Gibbons, Major A.St.Hill. In coll. Carnegie Museum, Pittsburgh, USA.   details Sclater, W.L. 1900 The mammals of South Africa, vol I: Primates, carnivora and ungulata. London, R.H. Porter, pp. i-xxxi, 1-324 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - South Africa Museums White Rhino Skull, imperfect, dug out from soil. Locality: South Africa, about twelve miles from the Vaal River in the Kimberley district. Collected: 1893. In South African Museum, Cape Town, South Africa.   details Sclater, W.L. 1900 The mammals of South Africa, vol I: Primates, carnivora and ungulata. London, R.H. Porter, pp. i-xxxi, 1-324 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - Botswana Distribution - Status White Rhino during the seventies and early eighties, it was practically exterminated in Ngamiland, Matabeleland and Mashona- land, where it had formerly been exceedingly common.   details Sclater, W.L. 1900 The mammals of South Africa, vol I: Primates, carnivora and ungulata. London, R.H. Porter, pp. i-xxxi, 1-324 Location: Subject: Species: Museums - Europe Museums White Rhino Hide. Locality: Zimbabwe, Mashonaland. Collected by: Coryndon, R.T., 1893. In coll. Tring Museum, Tring, United Kingdom   details back to search page Sort order: ------------------- Date ASC Author normal    (42)  ... 37 38 39 40 41 ...