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while Tirikshiu helped the ship's navigator with his map of the land around the Gulf of Boothia

Title page of the second edition (1628) of William Gilbert's Tractatus sive physiologia nova de magnete

The freshwater turtle is shown in three figures: two showing the upper and lower body and a third showing the neck in its elongated position

26th August 1980

King cobra Product:Greetings card while Tirikshiu helped the ship'sFull body study of a King cobra ('Ophiophagus elaps') with three head studies to show scalation. The reptile is noted as being drawn from life. The painting is on two joined pieces of paper This painting forms plate 7 of 'The Thanatophidia of India: being a description of the venomous snakes of the Indian peninsula, with an account of the influence of their poison on life, and a series of experiments', by Sir Joseph Fayrer FRS (1824 1907), J & A

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