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  • Statuette in walrus ivory of a child, Eskimo.
  • Top, two pike fish; bottom right, a walrus; bottom left, a manatee. Coloured etching by J. Pass, 1828.
  • Six amphibious arctic mammals, including a walrus, a sea lion and a seal, shown in their natural habitat. Line engraving by J. Scott after S. Edwards.
  • Captain Cook's men shooting at a herd of walrus in the Arctic Ocean during his third voyage (1777-1780). Engraving by E. Scott and J. Heath, 1784 after J. Webber.
  • Above, two tortoises, a sand piper, a heath cock, a scambroidean fish and a sprig of a tea plant; below, a fish, a branch of a theobroma tree, a morse (walrus), a nematode worm and a scombroidean fish. Engraving by Heath.
  • Meteorology: the sun in Baffin Bay disperses thick fog in the shape of a semicircle. Coloured etching by P. Fumagalli, 1827, after B. O'Reilly.
  • Two walrusses lying on a shore in a polar landscape. Coloured wood engraving by J. W. Whimper.
  • Four carved ivory amulets, Eskimo.
  • Eight different specimen of seals sitting on ice floes in the Arctic sea. Coloured etching by J. Bower after J. Stewart.
  • In a room in a cottage, a surgeon about to extract a man's tooth. Oil painting.
  • In a room in a cottage, a surgeon about to extract a man's tooth. Oil painting.
  • In a room in a cottage, a surgeon about to extract a man's tooth. Oil painting.
  • In a room in a cottage, a surgeon about to extract a man's tooth. Oil painting.
  • Bibliothèque Sainte-Geneviève, Paris: part of the cabinet of natural and artificial curiosities. Engraving by F. Ertinger, 1688.