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 | Raffles, T.S. 1822 Descriptive catalogue of a zoological collection, made on account of the Honourable East India Company, in the island of Sumatra and its vicinity, with additional notices illustrative of the natural history of these countries. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London 13: 239-274 |
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| Tennu. There is, however, another animal in the forests of Sumatra never yet noticed, which in size and character nearly resembles the rhinoceros, and what is said to have a single horn. This animal is distinguished by having a narrow whitish belt encircling the body, and is known to the native... |
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| Marsden, W. 1811 The history of Sumatra, containing an account of the Government, laws, customs, and manners of the native inhabitants, with a description of the natural productions, and a relation of the ancient political state of that island, 3rd ed. London, Printed for the author, by J. McCreery, Black Horse Court, pp. i-viii, 1-479, 1-8 |
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Ecology - Interspecific Relations
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| I do not know anything to warrant the stories told of the mutual antipathy, and the desperate encounters of these two enormous beasts. |
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| Marsden, W. 1811 The history of Sumatra, containing an account of the Government, laws, customs, and manners of the native inhabitants, with a description of the natural productions, and a relation of the ancient political state of that island, 3rd ed. London, Printed for the author, by J. McCreery, Black Horse Court, pp. i-viii, 1-479, 1-8 |
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Distribution - Records
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| The rhinoceros, both that with a single horn and the double-horned species are natives of these woods. The latter has been particularly described by the late ingenious Mr John Bell, one of the pupils of Mr John Hunter, in a paper in the Philos. Transactions for 1793. |
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| Marsden, W. 1811 The history of Sumatra, containing an account of the Government, laws, customs, and manners of the native inhabitants, with a description of the natural productions, and a relation of the ancient political state of that island, 3rd ed. London, Printed for the author, by J. McCreery, Black Horse Court, pp. i-viii, 1-479, 1-8 |
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| Marsden, W. 1811 The history of Sumatra, containing an account of the Government, laws, customs, and manners of the native inhabitants, with a description of the natural productions, and a relation of the ancient political state of that island, 3rd ed. London, Printed for the author, by J. McCreery, Black Horse Court, pp. i-viii, 1-479, 1-8 |
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Value - Related to Horn
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| The horn is esteemed as an antidote against poison, and on that account formed into drinking cups. |
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| Anonymous 1796 Article Rhinoceros. In: Encyclopaedia Perthensis, or universal dictionary of the arts, sciences, literature &c., volume 19. Perth, C. Mitchel and Co., pp. 130-132 |
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| Bell, W. 1795 Extracts of his paper on the Sumatran Rhinoceros. Magasin Encyclopedique 1: 146-147 |
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| Bell, W. 1793 Description of the double horned rhinoceros of Sumatra. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London 83 (pt 1): 3-6, pls. 2-4 |
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| [Text of the description of the Sumatran rhinoceros]
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Read January 10, 1793
The animal herein described was shot, with a leaden ball from a musket, about ten miles from fort Marlborough. I saw it the day after; it was then not in the least putrid, and i put it into the position f... |
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| Bell, W. 1793 Extracts of his paper on the Sumatran Rhinoceros. Memoirs of Science and the Arts 1 (2): 520-521 |
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| Bell, W. 1793 Extracts of his paper on the Sumatran rhinoceros. Gentleman's Magazine November 1793: 1020 |
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