Dugong skull and tusks Size:XL: 100 x 75cm The plate is inscribed below:

The plate is inscribed below: 'Plate VI

an allusion to the inconvenient design of women's clothes at the time

in Highland costume

At the beginning of 1876

November 5

Dugong skull and tusks Size:XL: 100 x 75cm The plate is inscribed below:Plate 13 from the paper 'On the milk tusks, and organs of hearing of the Dugong', by Everard Home, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 110 (1820), pp. 144 155. Base of the skull of a dugong (Dugong dugon) with milk tusks; with details of the permanent tusk appearing in situ and a section of the adult tusk. The work is inscribed with publication and plate details. Signed lower left 'W H Clift del..' Royal Society stamp verso.