Guide to the great fame animals (Ungulata) in the Department of Zoology, British Museum (Natural History) : Illustrated by 53 text and other figures.

  • British Museum (Natural History). Department of Zoology.
Date:
1907
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Credit: Guide to the great fame animals (Ungulata) in the Department of Zoology, British Museum (Natural History) : Illustrated by 53 text and other figures. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PEE FACE. The exhibited collection of Great Game Animals of the order Ungulata in the Museum is of such extent and of such general interest, more especially to sportsmen (to whose generosity its growth is largely due), that it has been deemed advisable it should form the subject of a special “ Guide.” . This Guide (like the descriptive labels in the cases upon which it is based) has been compiled by Mr. R. Lydekker, who has made a special study of many of the animals to which it is devoted. The treatment of the subject is considerably fuller than is the case in the Guide to -the Mammal Collection generally. Limitations of space have, however, rendered it impossible in many instances to give detailed notices of the various species, so that the descriptive portion is in the main devoted to the characteristics of the different genera and families. The seien- tific names employed in the Galleries have of necessity been adopted ; these being to some extent a cpmpromise between extreme views. The collection of Great Game Animals of the order under consideration occupies a considerable extent of the Lower Mammal Gallery on the first floor of the western half of the building, as well as the whole of the adjacent West Corridor