 | 1849 - 488 Seiten
...— In Tradescant's catalogue of his museum, in South Lambeth, near London, there is this entry : " Dodar from the island of Mauritius ; it is not able to flie, being so big." This was an entire bird ; it was probably the same that was seen alive by Lestrange, in 1638 ; it was... | |
 | 1849 - 1118 Seiten
...— In Tradescant's catalogue of his museum, in South Lambeth, near London, there is this entry : " Dodar from the island of Mauritius ; it is not able to flie, being so big." This was an entire bird ; it was probably the same that was seen alive by Lestrange, in 1638 ; it was... | |
 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1851 - 782 Seiten
...report, is able to trusse an rlephant; dodar from the island of Mauritius — it is not able to flic, being so big; birds of paradise, some with, some without...that of the dodo is the following : — ' The plyable mazav-wood, being warmed in water, will work to any form.' There can scarcely be a question that this... | |
 | John Henry Parker - 1875 - 452 Seiten
...1656 is very curious, and may be seen in the Museum. There is a quaint entry respecting the Dodo : — "Dodar, from the island of Mauritius : it is not able to flie, being too big." The head of this Dodo is still preserved, and is a great curiosity, as the race is extinct.... | |
 | Eric Parker - 1908 - 482 Seiten
...course, the Oxford dodo's skin is famous. It was not a dodo, though, to John Tradescant. It was a ' dodar, from the island of Mauritius : it is not able to flie, being so big.' The wrong thing about it all is that the name of the Tradescants ought to be associated with the collection,... | |
 | Library Association - 1903 - 758 Seiten
...able to truss an elephant," " Divers sorts of egges from Turkic, one given for a dragon's egge," " Dodar from the Island of Mauritius : it is not able to flie, being so big ". The head and foot of this same specimen has, Sir William Flower informs us, found its way through... | |
 | Howard Waldrop - 2006 - 274 Seiten
...The English were fascinated by them. Sir Harnon L'Estrange, a contemporary of Pepys, saw exhibited "a Dodar from the Island of Mauritius ... it is not able to flie, being so bigge." One was stuffed when it died, and was put in the Museum Tradescantum in South Lambeth. It eventually... | |
 | 1849 - 486 Seiten
...Dodo. — In Tradescant's catalogue of his museum, in South Lambeth, near London, there is this entry: ".Dodar from the island of Mauritius; it is not able to flie, being so big." This was an entire bird ; it was probably the same that was seen alive by Lestrange, in 1638 ; it was... | |
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Lestrange, a contemporary of Pepys, saw exhibited "a Dodar from the Island of Mauritius ... it is not able to flie, being so bigge." One was stuffed when it died, and was put in the Museum Tradescantum in South Lambeth. It eventually found its way into... 