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"Dimock, Julian A."

 
 
 Dimock, Anthony W.; Dimock, Julian A. (detail)
   
1909
Florida enchantments.
London, Hodder & Stoughton: 1-318. Illus.
–Earlier ed.: New York, The Outing Publ. Co., 1908. Revised eds. (by A. W. Dimock; photographs by J. A. Dimock): Peekamose (New York), A. W. Dimock, 1915 (x + 338); New York, Frederick A. Stokes Co., 1926. Contains material republished from a variety of magazines.
  Chap. 3, "The capture of the manatee", is on pp. 29-59 of the 1908 ed., and on pp. 39-59 of the 1915 ed., with 7 figs. and a cover photo. It tells the story of capturing 3 manatees for the New York Aquarium and photographing a fourth. The first animal, a large, pregnant female, died in the course of capture; the other two captives survived for some time at the Aquarium (see also Townsend, 1907).
  A short article by Nina J. Root on the work of this father-and-son writer-photographer team appeared in Nat. Hist. 105(8): 78-81, Aug. 1996.
Daryl P. Domning, Research Associate, Department of Paleobiology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. 20560, and Laboratory of Evolutionary Biology, Department of Anatomy, College of Medicine, Howard University, Washington, D.C. 20059.
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