Orkney seal skull mb-code 1645789 flags and bunting decorate the

flags and bunting decorate the route

was still rural in the eighteenth century

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

Walwert Sculpsit

Orkney seal skull mb-code 1645789 flags and bunting decorate thePlate 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