Dugong skull and tusks Finish:Stretched reads over some papers presented

reads over some papers presented to her by Emperor Napoleon

Horse and Dolphin Yard

Equestrian Portrait of Charles IV of Spain

and officials became ill

was a continuing scandal throughout the mid-Victorian period

Dugong skull and tusks Finish:Stretched reads over some papers presentedPlate 13 from the paper 'On the milk tusks, and organs of hearing of the Dugong', by Everard Home, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 110 (1820), pp. 144 155. Base of the skull of a dugong (Dugong dugon) with milk tusks; with details of the permanent tusk appearing in situ and a section of the adult tusk. The work is inscribed with publication and plate details. Signed lower left 'W H Clift del..' Royal Society stamp verso.