Trinity College Dublin Zoological Museum

Thomas Coulter further strengthened the collections which came to include insect cabinets by James Tardy and John Curtis.

[1] Over the following two decades, numerous architects submitted drawings for the project, whilst others, such as Decimus Burton notably declined their invitation to do so.

"The President gave a demonstration on the Coracidae, being in continuation of a series illustrative of the collection in the University Museum, and exhibited various species" "February 3, 1855.

These skeletons are very nearly perfect, being furnished with all the small bones and the incisor teeth; only a few pieces of the tail being deficient.

The female is very elegant, the lightness of the cervical vertebras and the slender limbs presenting a marked contrast to the males.