'The Rough-Billed Pelican' mb-code IOM_MNH_1957_0022a with prints and maps

with prints and maps

Winters in Britain were often particularly cold in the 17th and 18th centuries

viewed from across a stretch of water

Burdon-Sanderson conducted research in cholera

'The Rough-Billed Pelican' mb-code IOM_MNH_1957_0022a with prints and mapsOrnithological study of the American White Pelican (Pelecanus erythrorhynchos) shown swimming. Plate 50 from Museum Leverianum containing select specimens from the museum of the late Sir Ashton Lever by George Shaw (published by James Parkinson, 1792). The plate is inscribed: 'C. R. Ryley del. W. Skelton sculpt. PELECANUS TRACHYRYNCHOS. THE ROUGH BILLED PELICAN. London. Publish'd. as the Act directs Feb 2 1793 by I. Parkinson. Leverian Museum.'