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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