The Digital Ark: Early Modern Collections of Curiosities in England and Scotland, 1580-1700
Large Scaly Tail
Images supplied courtesy of the Burton Constable Foundation. [Photograph].Click image for full-size. Collector (major)Ralph Thoresby (1658-1725) In Print: Material from the 'Museum' of Ralph Thoresby (1659-1725) Preserved at Burton Constable Hall, East Yorkshire, 35 Description:Described in Musaeum Thoresbianum as: ‘The Tail of a very large scaly Creature; it
is 14 inches in length, consists of 13 Rounds, each
gradually less than other, from four Inches Diameter
. . . to half an Inch . . . sent by Sam. Molineux, of
Dublin, Esq;’