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1161. NHD7/1119

Reference (shelfmark):
NHD7/1119
Title:
Fish of the family Cyprinidae. Artist(s): Griffith, William (1810-1845)
Scope & Content:
Fish of the family Cyprinidae Genus ‘Barilius’, possibly ‘Barilius tileo’ Original inscriptions: ‘Opsarius. Girth extreme 7 ½ inch. Back – slaty blue metallic. Vertically olivaceous – this part is abrupt. Sides yellowish fuscous – linged with Salmon. Spots faint at first, blue. All the scales ...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1839-1840
Extent:
1 Item

1162. NHD7/1120

Reference (shelfmark):
NHD7/1120
Title:
A species of Cyprinid, possibly a Barb. Artist(s): Griffith, William (1810-1845)
Scope & Content:
A species of Cyprinid, possibly a Barb Original inscriptions: ‘Colour ordinary, scales without a red stripe. Intestines very thin, exceedingly long. Peritoneum black. Ornentum’ [?] ‘very oily. Peshawur’ Further inscriptions: ‘Dr Griffith, Affghanistan.’ Artist: Medium: Pencil, Pen and In...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1839-1840
Extent:
1 Item

1163. NHD7/1121

Reference (shelfmark):
NHD7/1121
Title:
A species of Snow Trout (possibly). Artist(s): Griffith, William (1810-1845)
Scope & Content:
A species of Snow Trout (possibly) Family Cyprinidae, Genus ‘Schizopyge’ (possibly) Original inscriptions: [indistinct pencil] ‘A beautiful fish’ [Pencil] ‘Brancheal rays 4. Stomach evidently distinct from intestines and much mor eorganised. Contents smallfish. Intestines as long again as the ...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1839-1840
Extent:
1 Item

1164. NHD7/1122

Reference (shelfmark):
NHD7/1122
Title:
Fish of the family Cyprinidae (Carp, Barbs, Minnows). Artist(s): Griffith, William (1810-1845)
Scope & Content:
Fish of the family Cyprinidae (Carp, Barbs, Minnows) Original inscriptions: ‘lent to me by Major Macgregor during our visit to Peshub and Olipore. Specimen lost.’ [on back] ‘Scales very small.’ ‘Cyprinoida = is to e Lalpore affinis. Affghanisthan near Jallalabad. Koon’ [d] ‘us river. Pushub Fe...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1839-1840
Extent:
1 Item

1165. NHD7/1123

Reference (shelfmark):
NHD7/1123
Title:
A species of Snow Trout. Artist(s): Griffith, William (1810-1845)
Scope & Content:
A species of Snow Trout Family Cyprinidae, Genus ‘Schizothorax’ (possibly) Original inscriptions: ‘Barbus of Cubul river at Kote-i-Ashraf – Mydan valley. In glass stoppered bottle – young and mature. Takes to worm greedily.’ [?] ‘takes if sparingly. Intestines tapering from stomach which is th...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1839-1840
Extent:
1 Item

1166. NHD7/1124

Reference (shelfmark):
NHD7/1124
Title:
A species of Snow Trout. Artist(s): Griffith, William (1810-1845)
Scope & Content:
A species of Snow Trout Family Cyprinidae, Genus ‘Schizothorax’ (possibly) Original inscriptions: ‘Schizothorax Barnesiana’ Further inscriptions: ‘Affghanistan Dr Griffith.’ Artist: Griffith Medium: Pencil Size: Note: Diagrams in pencil of heads and tiled vents and fins
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1839-1840
Extent:
1 Item

1167. NHD7/1125

Reference (shelfmark):
NHD7/1125
Title:
A species of Snow Trout. Artist(s): Griffith, William (1810-1845)
Scope & Content:
A species of Snow Trout Family Cyprinidae Original inscriptions: ‘Lalpore. Cabul. Jalalabad river. Stomach well-developed ½ length of body then attenuated but preserving stomachic structure rather more than length of baody then passing gradually into intestines which were gorged with muddy sub...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1839-1840
Extent:
1 Item

1168. NHD7/1126

Reference (shelfmark):
NHD7/1126
Title:
A species of Mountain Barb (possibly). Artist(s): Griffith, William (1810-1845)
Scope & Content:
A species of Mountain Barb (possibly) Family Cyprinidae Original inscriptions: ‘Caught Sept 1840 in Bamean River, in which it is very common. Takes the worm very greedily. Barbus of Bamean river. Common. Colour yellowish brown.’ Further inscriptions: ‘Affghanistan. Dr Griffith.’ Artist: Gri...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1839-1840
Extent:
1 Item

1169. NHD7/1127

Reference (shelfmark):
NHD7/1127
Title:
A species of Barb. Artist(s): Griffith, William (1810-1845)
Scope & Content:
A species of Barb Family Cyprinidae Original inscriptions: ‘Branch rays 4. Intestinal canal simple tube. 1 ½ times length of body. Intestines disposed in oblique semicircular folds – loaded with black pulp.’ ‘Barbus sp. Song river = rapids. East end of Dehra Dhoon – taken with casting nets....
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1839-1840
Extent:
1 Item

1170. NHD7/1128

Reference (shelfmark):
NHD7/1128
Title:
Mahseer. Artist(s): Griffith, William (1810-1845)
Scope & Content:
Mahseer Family Cyprinidae, ‘Tor sp.’ Original inscriptions: ‘Mahaseer Lalpore. Barbus hexastichus.’ ‘I don’t think this is the genuine Mahseer. The intestines were decomposed as I deferred uselessly but idly to sketching them’ [Ink] ‘The Mahasir of the lower parts of the Cabul river, to which...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1839-1840
Extent:
1 Item