Ten very scarce original South African Museum subscriber's tickets, printed on a single sheet and in uncut & unused condition.
These tickets date from the period of Edgar Leopold Layard's curatorship (1855-1870). Layard was a civil servant working in the service of the Cape governor Sir George Grey. Apart from his civil duties he also found the time to curate the collections of the South African Museum. In 1855 Layard assisted Charles Darwin in obtaining specimens for his research on the origin of species and in 1865 Layard found a new species of whale off the southern coast of South Africa, which is known today as the strap-toothed whale, or simply Layard's whale. In 1867 he published a book on the birds of South Africa.
- Overall Condition: Good
