Anatomy
Found in 91 Collections and/or Records:
Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Sir John Struthers, 21 October 1893
Struthers writes regarding the presence of the Trapezium bone in the horse. He advises Ewart on the reading of older books of anatomy and gives some extracts from these.
Location of Points of Dairy Cows, 1870s-1930s
Illustration of the side and rear views of a dairy cow with numbers indicating, with descriptive text beneath, the name of the points of the body.
Mountain Zebra, Stocking and Chestnut, 1870s-1930s
Photograph of a Mountain zebra's forelegs showing the stocking and chestnut.
Multipurpose perfusion apparatus, October 1973
Located in Poultry Research Centre Staff Papers 1973.
Note about a crooked headed fish, June 1887
Note probably collected on Ìle/Islay about a crooked headed fish similar to a gurnet. Text has been scored through as if transcribed elsewhere.
Note about a turbot or sturgeon, June 1887
Note about a turbot or sturgeon '3 or 4 f[ee]t long 2 1/2 broad no name' caught at Port na h-Abhainne/PortnahavenÌle/Islay.
Note about 'Cra-rionnach' or red mackerel, 1894
Note about 'Cra-rionnach' or red mackerel which reads 'Bones of head hard scales sharp and prickly. Scales come off whole when boiled. When plentiful no herrings are got on the west coast'. Text has been scored through in pencil as if transcribed elsewhere.
Note about insects, June 1887
Note about insects that they are 'complicated'; that 'The gorgeous drag[on]fly being the bloodyiest (sic) thing in all creation'; that 'Cobhar na Cuthaig is an insect' and that 'Little fleas have lesser fleas upon their legs'.
Note about pouches on fish, June 1887
Note about pouches on fish collected on Ìle/Islay that 'Crag-dhu has pouch on each side large...Sporan faolin in Murlach [dogfish].' Text has been scored through as if transcribed alsewhere.
Note about shellfish and creature which eats shellfish, June 1887
Note about shellfish and creature which eats shellfish which reads 'An Grianan bet[ween] the Maorach – mor. A Chiochag thraghat [polypus] red on the rocks with pimples eats maorach.' Text has been scored through as if transcribed elsewhere.