A hippopotamus skull in the Royal Society's Repository mb-height 3399 on the The Paul McCartney

on the The Paul McCartney World Tour

Interior view from the high table

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Father Thames asks a Member of Parliament

A hippopotamus skull in the Royal Society's Repository mb-height 3399 on the The Paul McCartneyStudies of a 'Skeleton of a Crocodile or the Leviathan' ('Given by Sir Robert Southwell; to whom it was sent from the East Indies'); 'An Elephant's Tusk'; a 'Rattle Snak's Tail' (the rattle of a rattlesnake); and 'The Wesan' (windpipe) of a crocodile. Table 4 from the book Musaeum Regalis Societatis; or, A catalogue and description of the natural and artificial rarities belonging to the Royal Society, and preserved at Gresham Colledge, by Nehemiah