The Identity of Captain Cook’s Kangaroo - Morrison-Scott & Sawyer - British Museum -1950

The Identity of Captain Cook’s Kangaroo – Morrison-Scott & Sawyer – British Museum -1950

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Card cover Bulletin Volume 1 No 3 from the British Museum ... brief 10 pages in total ... nice images.

Captain Cook took back three kangaroo specimens all from the Endeavour River. The skull of one was in the Royal College of Surgeons, London until it was destroyed by a bomb in WWII. The only figure of original material is the plate in Hawkesworth, this was later copied even though it is a poor depiction (it was a skin after all). Then there is the painting of a skull by Nathaniel Dunce most likely one of Cook’s. And then a photograph (reproduced here) of the R.C.S. bombed skull.

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The Identity of Captain Cook’s Kangaroo – Morrison-Scott & Sawyer – British Museum -1950

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