| Description | Black and white, and sepia photographs of cetacea, includes display of Commerson’s dolphin - Cephalorhynchus commersonii. in case with other items, a post card of a sperm whale from South Georgia (dated Dec 1913), photograph of lagenorhynchus albirostris (dated 15 Nov 1924, Watchet Somerset), and a photograph of Nyctalus noctula skeletons
Also photographs of Michael Oldfield Thomas; John Guy Dollman; Percy Stammwitz in uniform standing beside the body of a real northern bottlenose whale,Hyperoodon ampullatus, (NHMUK.ZD.1978.2559. Original stranded whale number SW.1936/28) in the Museum grounds; Martin AC Hinton in office and possibly in Morris dancing dress; unidenitifed woman and portrait, signed 'Dollman', standing with John Guy Dollman and riding a taxidermy elephant; unidentified family photographs (possibly Dollman given photographs are amongst his files)
From Orycteropus file |