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TitlePlate, 'The skull of the tapir from America' by Wm [William] Clift
Date[1821]
DescriptionGrey watercolour and ink drawing of the skull of a tapir from America [South American tapir].

Subject: Zoology

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'An account of the skeletons of the dugong, two-horned rhinoceros, and tapir of Sumatra, sent to England by Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles, Governor of Bencoolen [Bengkulu, Sumatra, Indonesia]'.

Read 22 March 1821.
Extent1p
FormatDrawing
PhysicalDescriptionGrey watercolour and ink on paper
AccessStatusOpen
RelatedMaterialDOI: 10.1098/rspl.1815.0154
DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1821.0019
RelatedRecordPT/15/18
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