A hippopotamus skull in the Royal Society's Repository mb-height 3399 St Christopher-le-Stocks was demolished in

St Christopher-le-Stocks was demolished in 1781 to make way for the expansion of the Bank of England

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View of market traders and street sellers in The Cut

View of the entrance to King's Bench Prison

A hippopotamus skull in the Royal Society's Repository mb-height 3399 St Christopher-le-Stocks was demolished inStudies of a 'Skeleton of a Crocodile or the Leviathan' ('Given by Sir Robert Southwell; to whom it was sent from the East Indies'); 'An Elephant's Tusk'; a 'Rattle Snak's Tail' (the rattle of a rattlesnake); and 'The Wesan' (windpipe) of a crocodile. Table 4 from the book Musaeum Regalis Societatis; or, A catalogue and description of the natural and artificial rarities belonging to the Royal Society, and preserved at Gresham Colledge, by Nehemiah