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CUL-DAR75.154
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Abstract of `Transactions of the Zoological Society' 5-9
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(Alca impennis, L.). Transactions of the Zoological Society of London 5: 317-335, pls. LI-LII. Vol. 6 Part 2. Owen p 70 on wingless bird being the largest in world (for no other could grow so big p 81 Sneers at types Owen, Richard. 1866. On the osteology of the Dodo (Didus ineptus, Linn.). Transactions of the Zoological Society of London 6: 49-85, pls. LXIV-LXVI. [do] Part 3. Flower p. 112 excellent on F. W. Dolphins — explains present range Flower, William Henry. 1867. Description of the
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CUL-DAR74.126-127
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Verneuil; Review of Strickland; Adams `American Journal of Science and Arts' ns 7: 48; 66; ns 9: 135
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(12 Vol VII. n.s. p 66. Review of Stricklands Book on Dodo. The 3 islands of Mauritius, Rodriguez Bourbon were inhabited by at least 4 distinct, but probably allied species of brevipennate birds - a case analogous with N. Zealand - These facts make me believe in Forbes. Turtles in Mauritius. Study map. [Silliman, Benjamin.] 1849. Review of The Dodo and its kindred, etc. By H. E. Strickland and A. G. Melville. American Journal of Science and Arts 2d ser. 7: 52-67. Vol IX p. 135. Prof. Adams
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A743.05
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Bory de Saint-Vincent, Jean Baptiste Georges Marie, ed. 1822-31. Dictionnaire classique d'histoire naturelle. 17 vols. Paris: Rey & Gravier. vol. 5.
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jardins dont elle fait l'ornement, se multiplie soit de graines que l'on s me aussit t qu'elles sont m res, soit par la s paration des racines. La seconde esp ce, Dodecatheon interifolium, L., Pluckn., Alm., t. 79, f. 6, cro t sur le bord des ruisseaux, dans les monts Allegany. Elle se distingue de la pr c dente par ses feuilles plus obtuses, enti res, par ses ombelles compos es d'un petit nombre de fleurs, et par son involucre dont les folioles sont lin aires. (A. R.) DODO. OIS. V. DRONTE. DODON A
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A761.08
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Cuvier, Georges. 1827-35. The animal kingdom arranged in conformity with its organization. With additional descriptions of all the species hitherto named, and of many not before noticed, by Edward Griffith and others. 16 vols. London: Geo. B. Whittaker. vol. 8: Aves (3).
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which were inserted in the Journal de Physique, that all those monstrous birds called Dronte, or Dodo, Solitary Dodo, and Nazarene Dodo, were perfectly unknown to the oldest inhabitants of these islands, where they had not been seen for more than a century, it is impossible to conceive how birds of such weight, without proper wings, and not web-footed, consequently unable either to swim or fly, could cross the [page] 44
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A761.08
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Cuvier, Georges. 1827-35. The animal kingdom arranged in conformity with its organization. With additional descriptions of all the species hitherto named, and of many not before noticed, by Edward Griffith and others. 16 vols. London: Geo. B. Whittaker. vol. 8: Aves (3).
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exaggerated, and the pretended faculty of digesting stones is utterly inadmissible. The figure of the dodo, found in Edwards's Gleanings, was copied from a drawing made at the Mauritius from a living individual. This figure has served as a model for all others, and particularly for those given by Dr. Latham, by Blumenbach, and by Shaw. The last writer, having remarked some relations between the bill of the dodo and that of the albatross, inquires, whether an inaccurate representation, done by a
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A761.08
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Cuvier, Georges. 1827-35. The animal kingdom arranged in conformity with its organization. With additional descriptions of all the species hitherto named, and of many not before noticed, by Edward Griffith and others. 16 vols. London: Geo. B. Whittaker. vol. 8: Aves (3).
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Oxford, (id. Ib. pl. 166.) The bill is not without some similitude to that of the penguins, and the foot would resemble that of the aptenodytes, if it were palmated. The second species, the Solitary Dodo, Lath. (Didus Solitarius), rests only on the testimony of Leguat. Voy. I. pl. 98, who has disfigured the best known animals, such as the hippopotamus and the lamantin. The third, Nazarene Dodo. Lath. (Didus Naza [page] 30
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A761.08
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Cuvier, Georges. 1827-35. The animal kingdom arranged in conformity with its organization. With additional descriptions of all the species hitherto named, and of many not before noticed, by Edward Griffith and others. 16 vols. London: Geo. B. Whittaker. vol. 8: Aves (3).
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rinus), is known only through Fran ois Cauche, who considers it to be the same as the hooded dodo, and gives it nevertheless but three toes, while all authors speak of the hooded dodo as having four. No one has seen a specimen of these birds since the above-named travellers. Of all birds, that which appears to have the wings most reduced to a mere vestige is the APTERYX, figured by Dr. Shaw, Nat. Mis. 1056 and 1057. Its general form is that of an aptenodytes, its size that of a goose. The feet
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A761.08
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Cuvier, Georges. 1827-35. The animal kingdom arranged in conformity with its organization. With additional descriptions of all the species hitherto named, and of many not before noticed, by Edward Griffith and others. 16 vols. London: Geo. B. Whittaker. vol. 8: Aves (3).
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space which separates the islands which have been assigned as their habitation. This reflection, too, invalidates the conjecture of Grant, that the dodo may yet be found on the coasts of some uninhabited islands. The only mode remaining of enabling us to form any positive judgment on the bird in question, would be to examine and compare the earliest relations of the penguins and manchots, and to see what analogies may exist between them and the accounts of the dodo.* We have thus put our
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A761.08
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Cuvier, Georges. 1827-35. The animal kingdom arranged in conformity with its organization. With additional descriptions of all the species hitherto named, and of many not before noticed, by Edward Griffith and others. 16 vols. London: Geo. B. Whittaker. vol. 8: Aves (3).
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of importance transmitted to us relative to the history of the dodo. We cannot quite agree with our illustrious author in totally excluding it from a place in the Animal Kingdom. The relations which we have cited concerning it, do not appear to us to be so wholly unworthy of credit; nor does it seem very likely that web-footed fowls, like the penguin and the manchot, could have been so misrepresented as to be taken for the bird described as the dodo. Indeed it appears rather ultra-sceptical to
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A761.08
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Cuvier, Georges. 1827-35. The animal kingdom arranged in conformity with its organization. With additional descriptions of all the species hitherto named, and of many not before noticed, by Edward Griffith and others. 16 vols. London: Geo. B. Whittaker. vol. 8: Aves (3).
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These birds would appear to be naturally divided into nudipedes and plumipedes, or naked footed, and feathered footed. In other respects their characters are not very prominent, for the purposes of generic separation. Linn us, under the name of gallin , comprehended, besides the ostrich, the bustard and the dodo, which have since been separated from this order. The term ALECTOR, signifying a cock, in Greek, has been applied, as we have seen, by our author, to designate the first family of the
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A761.08
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Cuvier, Georges. 1827-35. The animal kingdom arranged in conformity with its organization. With additional descriptions of all the species hitherto named, and of many not before noticed, by Edward Griffith and others. 16 vols. London: Geo. B. Whittaker. vol. 8: Aves (3).
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. This cassowary is tolerably common in the environs of Botany Bay and Port Jackson. It is very wild, and runs faster than a greyhound. Its flesh is not so ill-flavoured as that of the emu, and has a taste somewhat resembling that of beef. Though our author has rejected, and probably with justice, the DIDUS of Linn us from the animal kingdom, a brief notice of what authors have told us concerning these supposed birds, may prove not unentertaining to our readers. The Dodo, or Dronte, in French (Didus
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A761.08
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Cuvier, Georges. 1827-35. The animal kingdom arranged in conformity with its organization. With additional descriptions of all the species hitherto named, and of many not before noticed, by Edward Griffith and others. 16 vols. London: Geo. B. Whittaker. vol. 8: Aves (3).
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same writer adds, that in the stomach of these birds were found stones of different forms and sizes, which, probably, they were in the habit of swallowing, like the granivorous birds to which systematists have associated them. This description has been copied by Nieremberg; and Bontius, who has devoted to the dodo the seventeenth chapter of his Natural and Medical History of the East Indies, adds, [page] 44
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Cuvier, Georges. 1827-35. The animal kingdom arranged in conformity with its organization. With additional descriptions of all the species hitherto named, and of many not before noticed, by Edward Griffith and others. 16 vols. London: Geo. B. Whittaker. vol. 8: Aves (3).
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, the emu, the cassowary, and the dodo. He has placed them in the order gallin , to which, in truth, the form of their bill, the weight of their body, and the nature of their terrestrial habits, give them, by no means, an unfounded claim. It is in the elevation of their limbs alone that the first three approach the grall . But there are very essential differences between these birds, which sufficiently justified Brisson in separating them into distinct genera, under the names of struthio, rhea
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A761.16
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Cuvier, Georges. 1827-35. The animal kingdom arranged in conformity with its organization. With additional descriptions of all the species hitherto named, and of many not before noticed, by Edward Griffith and others. 16 vols. London: Geo. B. Whittaker. vol. 16: Tabular view of classification; index.
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northern, viii. 552 red-throated, viii. 553 striped, viii. 553 Divers, viii. 546. 551. 630 Greenland, viii. 555 Dod-aers, viii. 444 Dod-aersen, viii. 444 Dodo, vii. 299 hooded, viii. 299 Nazarene, viii. 299. 446 solitary, viii. 299. 446 Dolichonyx, viii. 688 Dotterel, viii. 308 sea, viii. 385 Double sourcil, le, vi. 469 Dove, ground, viii. 75 turtle, viii. 289 Doves, Portugal, viii. 77 Dragon, le, vii. 171 Dromaius, viii. 298. 443 Dromas, viii. 354 Ardeola, viii. 354 Drongear, vi. 373 [page] 7
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A505.2
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Lyell, Charles. 1830. Principles of geology, being an attempt to explain the former changes of the earth's surface, by reference to causes now in operation. 3 vols. London: John Murray. vol. 2.
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the Cape of Good Hope. It was of a large size and singular L form; its wings short, like those of an ostrich, and wholly : incapable of sustaining its heavy body even for a short flight: r In its general appearance it differed from the ostrich, cassowary, or any known bird. Many naturalists gave figures of the dodo after the commencement of the seventeenth century, and there is a painting of it in the British Museum, which is said to have been taken from a living individual. Beneath the
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A505.2
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Lyell, Charles. 1830. Principles of geology, being an attempt to explain the former changes of the earth's surface, by reference to causes now in operation. 3 vols. London: John Murray. vol. 2.
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, recent elevation and depression of the, 277. of the Rhone, cannon inclosed in calcareous rock taken up from the, 262. De Luc on the conversion of forests into peat mosses, 214. Denudation caused by rain, 139. Desert of Africa, its area as compared to that of the Mediterranean, 166. Desjardin, M., bones of the dodo found fossil under lava by, 151. Dikes numerous in the Val del Bove, Etna, 303. Disappointment Islands, connected with Duff's group by coral reefs, 295. Dislocations of strata
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A505.2
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Lyell, Charles. 1830. Principles of geology, being an attempt to explain the former changes of the earth's surface, by reference to causes now in operation. 3 vols. London: John Murray. vol. 2.
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Britain known to have been extirpated —Extinction of the Dodo—Rapid propagation of the domestic Quadrupeds over the American Continent—Power of exterminating species no prerogative of Man—Concluding Remarks. WE have seen that the stations of animals and plants depend not merely on the influence of external agents in the inanimate world, and the relations of that influence to the structure and habits of each species, but also on the state of the contemporary living beings which inhabit the same part
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A505.2
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Lyell, Charles. 1830. Principles of geology, being an attempt to explain the former changes of the earth's surface, by reference to causes now in operation. 3 vols. London: John Murray. vol. 2.
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earth Indigenous Quadrupeds and Birds of Great Britain known to have been extirpated Extinction of the Dodo Rapid propagation of the domestic Quadrupeds over the American Continent Power of exterminating species no prerogative of Man Concluding Remarks 141 CHAPTER X. Influence of inorganic causes in changing the habitations of species Powers of diffusion indispensable, that each species may maintain its ground How changes in the physical geography affect the distribution of species Rate of the
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Lyell, Charles. 1830. Principles of geology, being an attempt to explain the former changes of the earth's surface, by reference to causes now in operation. 3 vols. London: John Murray. vol. 2.
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rapidly before the progress of colonization in Australia ; and it scarcely admits of doubt, that the general cultivation of that country must lead to the extirpation of both. The most striking example of the loss, even within the last two centuries, of a remarkable species, is that of the dodo—a bird first seen by the Dutch when they landed on the Isle of France, at that time uninhabited, immediately after the discovery of the passage to the East Indies by * Fleming, Syn. Quad., p. 295. Vol. iii
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Lyell, Charles. 1830. Principles of geology, being an attempt to explain the former changes of the earth's surface, by reference to causes now in operation. 3 vols. London: John Murray. vol. 2.
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species, 25. on the varieties of the dog, 27. on identity of Egyptian mummies with living species, 30. on the migrations of the Springbok, 95. on the extinction of the Dodo, 151. on the durability of the bones of men, 258. Cuvier, M. F., on the aptitude of some animals to domestication, 38. on the influence of domestication, 41. Cypris found completely fossilized in Scotch marl lakes, 275. not uncommon in ponds in England, 275. Dangerfield, Captain F., on buried cities in Central India, 238
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A901
Beagle Library:
Duncan, John Shute. 1831. Analogies of organized beings. Oxford: S.Collingwood.
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CLASSES. TAILS. WINGS. GENERAL FORM. MAMMALIA. Long Powerful. Lion, Bos, Kangaroo, Monkeys. Short. Bear, Sheep, Wombat. Without. The greater number. With. Cheiroptera, Colugo, Flying Lemur, Petaurine Opossum, Flying Squirrel. Heavy. Hippopotamus, Mole. Light. Antelope, Deer, Giraffe, Ferret. AVES. Long. Peacock, Paradise , Widah Birds. Short. Wren, Water Ouzel; divers. Without. Penguin, Cassoary, Ostrich, Dodo. With. The greater number. Heavy, Dodo, Duck, Goose. Light. Anhinga, Tern, Wagtail
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A901
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Duncan, John Shute. 1831. Analogies of organized beings. Oxford: S.Collingwood.
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antelope, the leopard or weasel. Thus the unwieldy goose, duck, penguin, dodo, may be contrasted with the light and graceful phaethon, anhinga, tern, swallow, wagtail. Amongst amphibia, the clumsy turtle and toad with the light lizard and graceful serpent. So among fish, the ray tribe, the flounder, the appropriately named lump and diodon, with the gar, the mackerel, the trichiurus, the lampern. Among Crustacea, the crab with the scolopendra: amongst insects, the beetle tribes with the libellu
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A901
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Duncan, John Shute. 1831. Analogies of organized beings. Oxford: S.Collingwood.
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offence and defence, as before shewn. I am not aware that any are directly poisonous, but the flesh of many is disgustful, and produces nausea on being received into the human stomach. The flesh of that elegant bird the hoopoe is rancid and nauseous. The (now probably extinct) dodo was called by the sailors, who first eat it on the isle of Mauritius, the emetic bird, because the attempt to eat it was attended with effects which the name suggests. The buceros rhinoceros and the gracula f tida are
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A766
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De la Beche, Henry Thomas. 1832. A geological manual, 2nd ed., corrected and enlarged. London: Treuttel and Würtz, Treuttel Jun. and Richter.
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did not live upon the earth previous also to him, as seems to have been the case. We have no great certainty when the Mastodons of North America ccased to exist; it is commonly supposed that they became extinct previous to the commencement of the modern group, but of this we have no good proof. The same may be said of some other animals. The Dodo seems to afford us an example of the extinction of an animal in comparatively recent times; for it is now almost certain that this curious bird existed
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A739
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Beechey, Frederick William. 1832. Narrative of a voyage to the Pacific and Beering's Strait to co-operate with the polar expeditions: performed in His Majesty's ship Blossom, under the command of Captain F. W. Beechey in the years 1825, 26, 27, 28. Philadelphia: Carey and Rea.
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it was observed here, that the only accessible part of the beach was at the mouths of these streams. I have before observed, that the hills about our anchorage were wooded from the water's edge nearly to their summit. There were found among these trees, besides the cabbage and fan-palms, the tamanu of Otaheite, the pandanus odoratissimus, and, a species of purau; also some species of laurus, of urtica, the terminalia, dodo-n a viscosa, eleocarpus serratis, c. We collected some of the wood for
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A505.3
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Lyell, Charles. 1833. Principles of geology, being an attempt to explain the former changes of the earth's surface, by reference to causes now in operation. 3 vols. London: John Murray. vol. 3.
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be termed recent. Some recent species, therefore, are found fossil in various tertiary periods, and, on the other hand, others, like the Dodo, may be extinct, for it is sufficient that they should once have coexisted with man, to make them referrible to this era. Some authors apply the term contemporaneous to all the formations which have originated during the human epoch; but as the word is so frequently in use to express the synchronous origin of distinct formations, it would be a source of
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M. Desjardin1 was the man, who found Dodo bones at Isle of France De la Beche P 142 Stokes a quire a half of foolscap In Falkland paper 2 pages contains 2200 syllables in one page 2500 of Beecheys [J]2 I have about 900 pages The Captains papers are in quarter quires or 6 sheets. 1 Desjardin 1832. 2 Possibly a reference to Beechey 1831. [back cover
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M. Jarred Dumeril1 great work on Reptiles. M. J. says some reptiles same from Maurice Madagascar C.of Good Hope. His book probably worth studying. Wingless birds S. Continents. Ostriches. Dodo. Apteryx. Penquin Loggerheaded Duck Larger proportion of water small of land a few quadrupeds Study Productions of great Fresh Water Lakes of North America. 1 André-Marie-Constant Duméril. Expétologie générale on Histoire complète des Reptiles. Paris 1836, p. 278: Parmis ces cinq dernières espèces
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F1574a
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de Beer, Gavin ed. 1960. Darwin's notebooks on transmutation of species. Part I. First notebook [B] (July 1837-February 1838). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History). Historical Series 2 (2) (January): 23-73.
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on Reptiles. M. D says some reptiles same from Mauritius and Madagascar and C. of Good Hope. His book probably worth studying. Wingless birds [of] S[outh] continents. Ostriches. Dodo. Apteryx. Penguin. 1 Thomas Campbell Eyton. 2 Frederick William Hope. 3 Andr -Marie-Constant Dum ril. Exp tologie g n rale on Histoire compl te des Reptiles. Paris 1836, p. 278: Parmis ces cinq derni res esp ces Africaines [de Platydactyles], une a pour patrie commune le Cap de Bonne Esp rance, Madagascar et
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de Beer, Gavin, Rowlands, M. J. and Skramovsky, [Mrs] B. M. eds. 1967. Darwin's notebooks on transmutation of species. Part VI. Pages excised by Darwin. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History). Historical Series 3 (5) (21 March): 129-176.
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whether any birds Except Dodo in Mauritius 26 Lesson p. 620 Centropus (coucal) of Java Philippines has variety at Madagascar, Calcutta Sumatra, but I do not see how it is known that they are varieties not species. Vol. I. 694. Kingfisher of Europe (Alcedo ispida) from Moluccas 23 ibid., Born o r c le sans doute beaucoup d'animaux inconnus ; mais ceux qu'on y indique plus particuli rement, tels que l'orang-outan et le pongo, existent aussi, ce qu'on assure, et dans la cochin-chine et sur la presqu' le
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no reptiles p. 460 very doubtful whether any birds Except Dodo !! in Mauritius 2
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reptiles p. 460 very doubtful whether any birds Except Dodo !! in Mauritius 26
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Darwin, C. R. 1839. Narrative of the surveying voyages of His Majesty's Ships Adventure and Beagle between the years 1826 and 1836, describing their examination of the southern shores of South America, and the Beagle's circumnavigation of the globe. Journal and remarks. 1832-1836. London: Henry Colburn.
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peculiar to itself. Their numbers have rapidly decreased; they are already banished from that half of the island which lies to the eastward of the neck of land between St. Salvador Bay and Berkeley Sound. Within a very few years after these islands shall have become regularly settled, in all probability this fox will be classed with the dodo, as an animal which has perished from the face of the earth. Mr. Lowe, an intelligent person who has long been acquainted with these islands, assured me
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Darwin, C. R. 1839. Narrative of the surveying voyages of His Majesty's Ships Adventure and Beagle between the years 1826 and 1836, describing their examination of the southern shores of South America, and the Beagle's circumnavigation of the globe. Journal and remarks. 1832-1836. London: Henry Colburn.
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Isle of France, with some fragments of those of the Dodo; but M. Bibron one of the best authorities in Europe on reptiles informs me that he has reason to believe that a second species has been confounded under this name. In the same page I remark that there is every reason for believing that several of the islands possess their own peculiar varieties or species of tortoise, but that my specimens were too small to decide this question. M. Bibron now informs me, that he has seen full-grown
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The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online [253] Some Yeares Travels. in 1626 by Thos. Herbert. (published 1638) folio p. 349 Tortoises Dodo Manatee at Mauritius. (the former at Dygarrois, evidently Rodriguez by description) - says rats bats monkey Boars Goats Beavers most of which useful unuseful creatures were brought hither, men say, by the Portugal p. 351 Bourbon no creature till his Captain landed some Thomas Herbert. 1638. Some years travel into divers parts of Asia and Afrique
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Lyell says Stigmaria & Sigillaria are now found by Brongniart to have
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Some of Mylodons bones no marrow, in others just a trace of it - Apterix narrow in leg bones only bird - so had Dinornis also New Zealand bird - like Dodo lately extinct - Thinking what proofs of subsidence elevation has subsidence destroyed animals of S. America? Owen yields to New Red Sandstone birds of America - Mastodontoid animals from Australia, not aquatic, whether Deinotherium or not. Yes - Owen says lungs of Apterix not very unlike those of Crocodile - conjectures the Megalosaurus had
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The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online [208] Athenæum 45 — p. 746 — Brit Assoc. Owen on Diprotodon, connecting wombat Kangaroo in teeth - on Dinornis on skull of allied to Dodo Apteryx. Foss. Owen, Richard. 1845. Second report on the extinct mammals of Australia, with additional observations on the genus Dinornis, of New Zealand. Athenaeum no. 926 (26 July): 746
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Darwin, C. R. 1845. Journal of researches into the natural history and geology of the countries visited during the voyage of H.M.S. Beagle round the world, under the Command of Capt. Fitz Roy, R.N. 2d ed. London: John Murray.
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distributed; but it may be questioned whether it is in any other place an aboriginal. The bones of a tortoise at Mauritius, associated with those of the extinct Dodo, have generally been considered as belonging to this tortoise: if this had been so, undoubtedly it must have been there indigenous; but M. Bibron informs me that he believes that it was distinct, as the species now living there certainly is. The Amblyrhynchus, a remarkable genus of lizards, is confined to this archipelago: there
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Darwin, C. R. 1845. Journal of researches into the natural history and geology of the countries visited during the voyage of H.M.S. Beagle round the world, under the Command of Capt. Fitz Roy, R.N. 2d ed. London: John Murray.
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large an aboriginal quadruped peculiar to itself. Their numbers have rapidly decreased; they are already banished from that half of the island which lies to the eastward of the neck of land between St. Salvador Bay and Berkeley Sound. Within a very few years after these islands shall have become regularly settled, in all probability this fox will be classed with the dodo, as an animal which has perished from the face of the earth. At night (17th) we slept on the neck of land at the head of
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A335
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Owen, Richard. 1859. On the classification and geographical distribution of the mammalia, being the lecture on Sir Robert Reade's foundation, delivered before the University of Cambridge, in the Senate-House, May 10, 1859. To which is added an appendix "on the gorilla," and "on the extinction and transmutation of species." London: John Parker.
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specially hunted down, like the dodo and dinomis, but by degrees has become more scarce. Some of the geological changes affecting circumstances favourable to the well-being of the Alca impennis, have been matters of observation. A friend1, who last year visited Iceland, informs me that the last great auks, known with anything like certainty to have been there seen, were two which were taken in 1844 during a visit made to the high rock called 'Eldey,' or ' Meelsoekten,' lying off Gape Reykianes
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Darwin, C. R. 1860. Journal of researches into the natural history and geology of the countries visited during the voyage of H.M.S. Beagle round the world, under the command of Capt. Fitz Roy R.N. London: John Murray. Tenth thousand. Final text.
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distributed; but it may be questioned whether it is in any other place an aboriginal. The bones of a tortoise at Mauritius, associated with those of the extinct Dodo, have generally been considered as belonging to this tortoise: if this had been so, undoubtedly it must have been there indigenous; but M. Bibron informs me that he believes that it was distinct, as the species now living there certainly is. The Amblyrhynchus, a remarkable genus of lizards, is confined to this archipelago: there
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Darwin, C. R. 1860. Journal of researches into the natural history and geology of the countries visited during the voyage of H.M.S. Beagle round the world, under the command of Capt. Fitz Roy R.N. London: John Murray. Tenth thousand. Final text.
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large an aboriginal quadruped peculiar to itself. Their numbers have rapidly decreased; they are already banished from that half of the island which lies to the eastward of the neck of land between St. Salvador Bay and Berkeley Sound. Within a very few years after these islands shall have become regularly settled, in all probability this fox will be classed with the dodo, as an animal which has perished from the face of the earth. At night (17th) we slept on the neck of land at the head of
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A1196
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Westwood, J. O. 1860. Mr. Darwin's theory of development. The Gardeners' Chronicle and Agricultural Gazette (11 February): 122.
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acquire by such means the additional power of flight have been unavailing, and the type of the species remains as it was in this respect 3000 years ago. Whilst in the case of other analogous species of birds, such as the Dinornis and the Dodo, we know that the actual destruction of the species has taken place, whilst that of the Kivi of New Zealand is equally certain in a very short time. I purposely avoid referring to geological evidences, believing that – 1st, if the permanence of a species
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[Duns, John]. 1860. [Review of] On the Origin of species. North British Review. 32 (May): 455-486.
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region of the Dodo, and if so, a flock might have perished in it.1 If Mr Darwin knew a little more geology, he 1 Some of the facts in this chapter are characteristic. No bee but the humble bee visits viola tricolor? In some parts of Scotland the increase of the messel-thrush has caused the decrease of the song-thrush? Hive-bees cannot get at the nectar in the corolla tubes of trifoleum pratense, because of the shortness of their proboscis. Did it not cause astonishment, when Mr Darwin recollected
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[Gray, Asa]. 1860. [Review of Origin]. Darwin on the origin of species. Atlantic Monthly 6 (July-August): 109-116, 229-239.
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the drift period into that of the present, may be turned to the same account. Mammoths, mastodons, and Irish elks, now extinct, must have lived down to human, if not almost to historic times. Perhaps the last dodo did not long outlive his huge New Zealand kindred. The auroch, once the companion of mammoths, still survives, but apparently owes his present and precarious existence to man's care. Now, nothing that we know of forbids the hypothesis that some new species have been independently and
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Gray, Asa. 1861. Natural Selection not inconsistent with Natural Theology. A free examination of Darwin's treatise on the Origin of Species, and of its American reviewers. Reprinted from the Atlantic Monthly for July, August, and October, 1860. London: Trübner & Co., Boston: Ticknor and Fields.
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5. The overlapping of existing and extinct species, and the seemingly gradual transition of the life of the drift period into that of the present, may be turned to the same account. Mammoths, mastodons, and Irish elks, now extinct, must have lived down to human, if not almost to historic times. Perhaps the last dodo did not long outlive his huge New Zealand kindred. The auroch, once the companion of mammoths, still survives, but owes his present and precarious existence to man's care. Now
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Lyell, Charles. 1863. The geological evidences of the antiquity of man with remarks on the origin of species by variation. 3d ed., revised. London: John Murray.
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consequence of transmutation, or abruptly by the extermination of the last surviving representatives of the unaltered type. We know in what century the last Dodo perished, and we know that in the seventeenth century the language of the Red Indians of Massachusetts, into which Father Eliot had translated the Bible, and in which Christianity was preached for several generations, ceased to exist, the last individuals by whom it was spoken having at that period died without issue.* But if just
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1865.10.00
On the pigeons of the Malay Archipelago `Ibis' 1: 365-400 plus plates
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seven are found in New Guinea itself, although so little is yet known of that great island. Some of these are among the most remarkable of Pigeons. Trugon terrestris, by its stout hooked bill and strong legs, shows some approach to the wonderful Didunculus, the existing representative of the Dodo. [page] 37
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[Wallace, Alfred Russel]. 1867. [Review of Origin 4th edn] Mimicry, and other protective resemblances among animals. Westminster and foreign quarterly review 88, no. 173, n.s. 32 No.1 (1 July): 1-43.
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understand their chief characteristics—their great abundance, their slow flight, their gaudy colours, and the entire absence of protective tints on their under surfaces. This property places them somewhat in the position of those curious wingless birds of oceanic islands, the dodo, the apteryx, and the moas, which are with great reason supposed to have lost the power of flight on account of the absence of carnivorous quadrupeds. Our butterflies have been protected in a different way, but quite
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Wallace, A. R. 1869. The Malay Archipelago: The land of the orang-utan, and the bird of paradise. A narrative of travel, with studies of man and nature. London: Macmillan and Co. vol. 2.
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modification exactly opposite to that which produced the wingless birds (the Apteryx, Cassowary, and Dodo), appears to have here taken place; and it is curious that in both cases an insular habitat should have been the moving cause. The explanation is probably the same as that applied by Mr. Darwin to the case of the Madeira beetles, many of which are wingless, while some of the winged ones have the wings better developed than the same species on the continent. It was advantageous to these
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