THE DODO 



1610 and 1620, specimens were brought alive 

 to Europe and were exhibited as a show. We 

 once possessed at Oxford a stuffed specimen, 

 secured by that ingenious and worthy gentleman 



Fig. 17. — A nearly complete skeleton of the Dodo, put together 

 from bones collected by Mr. George Clark in a marshy 

 pool in Mauritius. In front is seen the dried foot of a 

 specimen which was brought alive to Europe about the 

 year 1600. The foot and the skeleton are in the Natural 

 History Museum. 



Mr. Elias Ashmole, who gave his collections to 

 the university 250 years ago. But as it became 

 mouldy and eaten by insects, it was ordered, a 

 hundred years ago, by the Vice-Chancellor and 



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