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Cyclopaedia Londinensis

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Rhinoceros. 1. R. Unicornis. 2. A new species. (Anomalous) J. Pass del.” From Wilkes, J, 1827. Encyclopaedia Londinensis. London, Wilkes, vol. 22 (1483), pp. 55-57

The two-horned rhino is after Campbell. The lower figure refers to a supposedly new species or type of unicorn discovered by the missionary John Campbell and reported in a Philosophical Transactions article by Everland Home in 1822. It was actually a white rhino.

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