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Anatomy

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Created For = NAHSTE

Found in 110 Collections and/or Records:

Fetlock and Postern [Horse], 1870s-1930s

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1434/2146
Scope and Contents

Photographs of a horse's fetlock and postern - the image on the left shows a horse's front legs 'tied-in below the knee and large fetlocks;' and the image on the right shows a horse's rear legs 'bones of postern too slight.'

Dates: 1870s-1930s

Field notebook belonging to Alexander Carmichael, 1887

 Series
Identifier: Coll-97/CW89
Scope and Contents Field notebook belonging to Alexander Carmichael probably while he lived at 31, Raeburn Place, Edinburgh, as this address is written in ink on the first folio. Written on the inside front cover but heavily scored is text which reads 'Mrs Malcolm MacLeod, [- Islay], widow of Mal[colm] MacLeod [Loch-]. The majority of the notebook contains material collected from Donald Currie, crofter, Ìle/ Islay relating folklore and natural history about the birds, fish, shellfish and animals found in and...
Dates: 1887

Figures Illustrating the Points of an Ox, 1870s-1930s

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1434/617
Scope and Contents

Illustration of the anatomical points of an ox from the front, side and rear views with numbers written on the various parts corresponding to the terms printed below.

Dates: 1870s-1930s

Good Quarters and Split-Up, 1870s-1930s

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1434/3076
Scope and Contents

Photographs of the rear view of a horse, one with good quarters and one split-up.

Dates: 1870s-1930s

Good Type of Horse Pasterns and Splints, 1870s-1930s

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1434/1889
Scope and Contents

Photographs of horses pastens, hooves and splints in the mid 20th century. The top lefthand image shows a 'good type of draught horse pasterns with moderate slipping'; the top righthand image shows a 'sound "open" hoof'; the lower lefthand image shows a 'prominent sidebone' on a horse's front leg; and the lower righthand image shows 'splints - with a bad quarter crack on the right foot.'

Dates: 1870s-1930s

Horse Breasts, 1870s-1930s

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1434/1882
Scope and Contents

Two photographs of a hunter and a mare's chests. The photograph on the left depicts the front view of a 'well-shaped weight carrying hunter'; and the photograph on the right depicts a 'broad breasted thoroughbred mare.'

Dates: 1870s-1930s

Horse, Clothed Skeleton, 1870s-1930s

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1434/1906
Scope and Contents

Illustration of a horse skeleton 'showing the location of the bones, the degree to which the skeleton and the muscle influences the form, and also the location of the various points and common diseases.'

Dates: 1870s-1930s

Horse - Hocks, 1870s-1930s

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1434/2131
Scope and Contents

Two photographs of a horse's hocks - the lefthand image shows a 'fairly good "bone" below hock'; and the righthand image shows 'sickle hocks and "light" bone'.

Dates: 1870s-1930s

Horse - Shoulder, 1870s-1930s

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1434/2129
Scope and Contents

Illustration comparing a sloping shoulder on a horse and an upright shoulder on a horse.

Dates: 1870s-1930s

Horse's Foot, 1870s-1930s

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1434/3077
Scope and Contents

Illustrations of the anatomy of a horse's foot with one image showing the arteries and vein networks; one showing the cross-section of the foot; and one showing the foot without the hoof.

Dates: 1870s-1930s