Introduction-The cabinet of curiosities at the turn of the nineteenth century: the Cobbe museum and its contemporariesArchbishop Cobbe Swiftiana -- Cabinets and furniture -- Zoological curios and taxidermy -- Insects -- Shells -- Charles Cobbe's herbarium -- Minerals, rocks and fossils, and geological curios -- Antlers of Megaceros -- Stone projectile tips -- Classical and Egyptian antiquities -- Coins and medals -- Lithophane -- Gem facsimiles -- Early modern curiosities -- Anatomical illustration -- India -- Burma -- Nepal -- China and Japan -- Africa, the Pacific and North America -- The continuing collection.
