A postmortem look at Dwarka

** Note: this post contains a picture of a dead horse’s partially dissected skull. **

Ginnie Pope sent me this scan of an article related to Dwarka, published May 16th, 1923 — two years after Dwarka had passed away — within The Illustrated London News. The article, “A Problem For Horsemen: The “Blind” Nostril” was by W. P. Pycraft, Author of “The Infancy of Animals,” “The Courtship of Aimals,” etc. etc. This was in fact William Plane Pycraft, an Englishman and a zoologist that wrote extensively on natural history while involved with the British Natural History Museum. The article includes a photo of Dwarka from his very last days, as well as a postmortem shot of his skull which is used to compare against reconstructions of earlier protohorses. It also discusses the evolution of the horse and its functional anatomy. Gruesome as it might be, it’s cool to find out that another of our desert horses played a role in the advancement of scientific education.

Photo under cut, but if it’s too small for you to read the font, you can access it via dropbox by clicking this link.