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File AvailableMitchell, P.C. 1912 Report on the additions to the Society's Menagerie uring the months of May, June, July, August and September 1912. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1912 October 29: 908
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Indian Rhino
A collection from Nepal, includes 1 Rhinoceros unicornis presented on 21 May by HM The King.
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File AvailablePocock, R.I. 1912 The Zoological Society (The death of two rhinoceroses; measurements of Indian rhinoceroses; some characters of rhinoceroses; the King's collection of Indian animals). Field 119 (3082), 20 January 1912: 143, figs. 1-5
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Indian Rhino
Within the last two months the Society [in London] has lost two of its finest show animals, namely, a nearly (perhaps quite) adult female East African rhinoceros purchased in 1906, and an old male Indian rhinoceros presented by the late Maharajah of Cooch Behar in 1886. In neither case was the e...
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File AvailablePocock, R.I. 1912 The Zoological Society (The death of two rhinoceroses; measurements of Indian rhinoceroses; some characters of rhinoceroses; the King's collection of Indian animals). Field 119 (3082), 20 January 1912: 143, figs. 1-5
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Indian Rhino
In the late spring the zoo will receive from India a large and valuable consignment of animals, the gift of his Majesty King George. Two keepers will shortly be sent to Calcutta to bring home the collection. It contains a young rhinoceros, which will help to fill the gap caused by the death of ...
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File AvailablePocock, R.I. 1912 The Zoological Society (The death of two rhinoceroses; measurements of Indian rhinoceroses; some characters of rhinoceroses; the King's collection of Indian animals). Field 119 (3082), 20 January 1912: 143, figs. 1-5
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Indian Rhino
Old male in London Zoo at death. It was impossible to weigh him entire, but all that could be collected of his cut-up remains, including the food contents of his intestines, scaled 3612 lbs avoirdupois - that is to say, nearly 1400 lb less than one that died in the gardens in 1854, whose weight ...
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File AvailablePocock, R.I. 1912 The Zoological Society (The death of two rhinoceroses; measurements of Indian rhinoceroses; some characters of rhinoceroses; the King's collection of Indian animals). Field 119 (3082), 20 January 1912: 143, figs. 1-5
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Indian Rhino
Male in London Zoo, 31 years old. The dimensions of this animal after death were as follows: Height at withers, 5 ft 10 ? inch Height at croup, 6 ft ? inch The height being taken between two upright broomsticks tangential to the spine and the soles of the feet. In Ward's Records of Big game ...
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File AvailablePocock, R.I. 1912 The Zoological Society (The death of two rhinoceroses; measurements of Indian rhinoceroses; some characters of rhinoceroses; the King's collection of Indian animals). Field 119 (3082), 20 January 1912: 143, figs. 1-5
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Indian Rhino
Old male in London Zoo at death. The dimensions of this animal after death were as follows: Length from nose to root of tail, 10 ft 3 inch
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File AvailableDalton, R.; Hamer, S.H. 1912 The provincial token-coinage of the 18th century illustrated, part IV: Middlesex. London, Stationers Hall, pp. i-iv, 89-120
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Indian Rhino
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File AvailableMatthews, A. 1912 Rhinoceros: first in England, 1684. Notes and Queries (11) 5: 46
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Indian Rhino
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File AvailableMitchell, P.C. 1911 Report on the additions to the Society's Menagerie during the month of May, 1911. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1911 June 27: 985
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Black Rhino
1 Rhinoceros bicornis, male, from Nairobi, received from R.B. Woosnam for H.M. The King's African Collection, on 19 May 1911.
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File AvailableMitchell, P.C. 1911 Remarks upon a pair of young African rhinoceroses seen at Mr Hagenbeck's Zoological Park at Stellingen. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1911 June 27: 987-988
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Black Rhino
Saw a fine young pair of common African rhino, obtained from British East Africa, the exact locality being unknown.
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