Orkney seal skull mb-code 1645789 see also 389452 & 389454

see also 389452 & 389454

'The Wounded Cavalier'

flags and bunting decorate the route

Collected by Robert Mallet and described by him in his 1862 Report

Saturday 20th September 1975

Orkney seal skull mb-code 1645789 see also 389452 & 389454Plate 28 from the paper 'On the difference in the appearence of the teeth and the shape of the skull in different species of seals', by Everard Home, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 112 (1822), pp. 239 240. Side view of the skull half resting on a book. The animal, of at least thirty years of age, was shot near the Orkney Islands and the skeleton presented to John Hunter. Signed and inscribed lower left 'Willm. Clift delineavit